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KANSAS STANDARDS
for
History and
Government;
Economics and
Geography
Kansas State Board of Education
Approved December 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kansas Curricular Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography Writing Committee.............................. 2
Introduction
Mission Statement......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Purpose ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Intended Audiences ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Definitions ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Explanation of Key ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Skills and Processes ................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Scope and Sequence .............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Extended Standards ............................................................................................................................................................... 13
Standards by Grade Level
Kindergarten ............................................................................................................................................................... 31
First grade ................................................................................................................................................................... 50
Second Grade ............................................................................................................................................................. 69
Third Grade ................................................................................................................................................................. 88
Fourth Grade............................................................................................................................................................. 108
Fifth Grade ................................................................................................................................................................ 130
Sixth Grade ............................................................................................................................................................... 151
Seventh Grade .......................................................................................................................................................... 175
Eighth Grade ............................................................................................................................................................. 201
High School............................................................................................................................................................... 225
Glossary (Appendix 1)........................................................................................................................................................... 272
Geographic Location (Appendix 2) ........................................................................................................................................ 286
State Historic Sites to Tour with Students (Appendix 3) ........................................................................................................ 290
State and National Organizations and Resources (Appendix 4) ............................................................................................ 293
The Kansas Curricular Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography Writing Committee
Co-Chair: Jennie Chinn, Executive Director of the Kansas State Historical Society
Co-Chair: Linda Carlton, Curriculum Coordinator, Wichita Public Schools
Co-Chair: Maureen Donegan, Curriculum Coordinator, Olathe Public Schools
Paul Adams, Teacher, Topeka Public Schools
Sharon Laverentz, Northeast KS Education Service Center
Sarah Arroyo, Teacher, Blue Valley Public Schools
Mike Ortmann, Teacher, Lawrence Public Schools
Connie Bergquist, Teacher, Weskan Public Schools
Pat Phillips, Consultant, Hays, KS
Sue Boldra, Teacher, Hays Public Schools
Barbara Phipps, Professor, University of Kansas
Nancy Brindle, Teacher, Paola Public Schools
Nancy Presnal, Teacher, Salina Public Schools
Mike Bruner, Teacher, Chanute Public Schools
Sherry Reed, Curriculum Coordinator, Auburn-Washburn Public Schools
M. Kathleen Brown-Cecora, Instructor, Pittsburg State University
Robert Rook, Professor, Ft. Hays State University
Melanie Campbell, Teacher, Seaman Public Schools
Judith Schieszer, Teacher, Shawnee Mission Public Schools
Cheryl Everhart, Teacher, Gardner-Edgerton Public Schools
Darla Smith, Curriculum Coordinator, Derby Public Schools
Jim Haas, Director, Webster University at Kansas City
Janet Smith, Principal, Garden City Public Schools
G. Daniel Harden, Professor, Washburn University
Kris Shaw, KSDE, School Improvement and Accreditation
Ginny Hoover, Consultant, Hutchinson, KS
Lynnett Wright, KSDE, Learning Services
Facilitators for the Standards Writing Committee:
Kim Rasmussen, Curriculum Coordinator, Auburn-Washburn Public Schools through August 2, 2004
Lynn Stanley, Social Studies Education Program Consultant, KSDE, August 2, 2004-current
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Mission Statement
The Kansas Standards for History and Government, Economics and Geography enable students to actively participate as informed
citizens, to build a foundation of continuous knowledge, to acquire a working knowledge and understanding of these disciplines, and
to enrich their lives.
Purpose of this Document
This document is a revision of the standards, benchmarks and indicators for the Kansas Curricular Standards for History and
Government; Economics and Geography (1999). The standards revision committee, made up of teachers, curriculum coordinators,
professors and learning consultants included research into state and national standards, best practices in education, input from the
teaching field and input from the public citizens of Kansas in order to define what Kansas students should be able to do in history,
civics-government, geography and economics. The standards revision committee pro-actively responded to the feedback from the
1999 document throughout the revision process. This revised document focuses on knowledge and skills related to the human
experience and is intended as a framework for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and teacher preparation.
Feedback from the 1999 document warranted a recommended scope and sequence. Many districts requested this in order to assist
them in program planning. The recommended scope and sequence was created based on research in developmental learning, best
practices of leading states’ scope and sequence and the current scope and sequence naturally found in most Kansas districts. For
example, most Kansas districts placed Kansas history in the seventh grade, therefore, it was placed in the seventh grade
recommended scope and sequence in this document. While intending to provide a uniform guide for instruction, the standards are
not intended to be a state-mandated curriculum for how and when content is taught. These decisions are left to teachers and local
districts.
The integration of knowledge drawn from distinct disciplines is an important consideration in learning. A concerted effort was made
to ensure that benchmarks and indicators could be accomplished in the classroom using an integrated approach. For example, fifth
grade teachers presenting the historical context for the American Revolution can effectively incorporate civics-government,
economic, and geography indicators at the same time. In addition, students can build understanding about the major concepts in
successive grade levels.
Beyond shaping student instruction and assessment, these standards are intended to provide direction and guidance for staff
development and teacher preparation and recertification. Underlying this document is a steadfast belief that both subject knowledge
and teaching expertise are essential for effective instruction and a rich learning experience.
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Intended Audiences
If you are a teacher, this document will help you understand the state standards in each discipline and how they can be used in your
classroom. Indicators for state assessment are clearly marked. Instructional suggestions are intended to assist you in planning
instruction. These are suggestions only.
If you are an administrator or curriculum specialist, this document will help you design and deliver local curriculum in each
discipline. It will help you align district curriculum with Kansas standards. Indicators marked for assessment provide additional
guidance to the district.
If you are a pre-service teacher or college/university faculty member, this document provides guidance for preparation of
teachers in each discipline. Critical content and process skills needed for effective K-12 teachers are clearly spelled out for each
discipline.
If you are a parent or community member, this document outlines the expectations for Kansas students in each discipline. It
describes content and skills for which students will be held accountable.
Standards, Benchmarks and Indicators:
This document presents standards, benchmarks and indicators.
Standard: a standard is a general statement of what a student should know and be able to do in academic subjects. For the
purpose of this document, standards are defined for civics-government, economics, geography, and history.
Benchmark: a benchmark is a specific statement of what a student should know at a specific time. For the purpose of this
document, benchmarks are defined for grades, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and grades 9-12 (cluster).
Indicator: an indicator is a specific statement of knowledge or skills, which a student demonstrates in order to meet a
benchmark.
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Explanation of Key
indicators marked for the Kansas
Social Studies Assessment
Fifth Grade Knowledge and Application Indicators
The student:
1. ▲ (A) - ($) determines the costs and benefits of a spending, saving,
or borrowing decision.
2.
(K) - ($) recognizes that supply of and demand for workers in
various careers affect income.
(K) knowledge indicator: the ability to recognize
and recall social studies definitions, facts,
concepts and procedures.
(A) application indicator: the ability to use or apply
a social studies knowledge base to interpret,
analyze, problem solve, make informed decisions,
and impact civic participation.
($) marks an indicator that
addresses a personal finance
topic.
▲ appears within an e.g. list and
Sixth Grade Knowledge and Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines reasons for variation in population distribution (e.g.,
environment, migration, government policies, birth and death
rates).
2.▲ (K) describes the forces and processes of conflict and cooperation
that divide or unite people (e.g., ▲ uneven distribution of
resources, ▲water use in ancient Mesopotamia, ▲building
projects in ancient Egypt, and Middle America, ▲the Greek citystates, empire building, movements for independence or rights).
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distinguishes the items specifically
marked for assessment. If deltas did
not appear, then the entire e.g. list
would be assessed. In this example,
empire building and movements for
independence of rights will not be
assessed. These deltas appear for
more specificity of assessed items
and to account for time constraints
based on testing window.
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Explanation of Key Cont…
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.  (K) - ($) discusses the benefits of saving money.
Teacher Notes:
1.
(1, 2) denotes the indicator (s) which the
instructional suggestions would assist in
teaching.
 E5B5I1
 stars mark the K-4 indicators that are
foundational for the 6th grade assessment.
In this example, this first grade economics
indicator is a building block of knowledge for
the assessed indicator E5B5I1 (Economics,
5th grade, Benchmark 5, Indicator 1), which
will be tested on the 6th grade assessment.
Stars will only be found in grades K through
4, and the corresponding assessment
indicator will appear in under the teacher
notes.
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Compare the Egyptians’ use of the Nile River to the Sumerians use
of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (1, 2) See also: C-GB1I1, GB2I2,
GB3I2, GB5I13
 Discuss with students how European merchants made such large
profits from the sale of Asian goods. Lead students to realize that
because Asian goods were not readily available in Europe, the only
way to get them was pay a high price. (1, 2) See also: C-GB1I1,
GB2I2
 Role-play a Portuguese sailor. Write a persuasive letter to King John
I, explaining why he should pay for an ocean voyage you want to
make to Asia and why the journey would be good for the Portuguese.
(1, 2) See also: GB2I2, GB5I4, HB1I3, HB2I3, HB2I1
GB2I2…HB1I3 denotes interdisciplinary connections to
the instructional suggestion. When teaching this example,
a correlation can be made with sixth grade, Geography,
Benchmark 2, Indicator 2 (GB2I2).
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Civics-Gov’t
8
X
X
X
X
X
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X
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X
X
X
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X
X
X
X
X
Comparison
& Contrast
X
X
X
X
X
Questioning/
Inquiry
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Present a WellSupported
Historical Argument
Roles of Citizens
Map Skills
Writing
persuasively
Map Making Skills
U.S. History:
1900Present
7
Sequence
Mental Mapping
Interpreting Maps
World History
(Renaissanc
e- Present)
World Hist.
(Ancient Medieval
Civilizations)
6
Sequence
Point of View
Main idea
Technical
reading &
text structure
- Context
clues
- Text
structure
Technical
reading &
text structure
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Technical
reading &
text structure
Text
structure
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
World
Regions
(Geog.)
U.S. &
History
1800-1900
U.S. History
(Exp.-1800)
5
Kansas
History &
Gov’t
Kansas &
Regions of
the U.S.
4
12
Chronological
Order
Creating and Using
Timelines
Recognizing
Historical
Perspectives
Evaluating
Historical
Perspectives Then
and Now
Framing Historical
Questions
Reading Various
Types of Maps
Communities
(Local Hist.)
3
Family
2
Self
1
Literacy
Skills
K
Skills
Illustration and Map
Drawing
Then and
Now (Past
and Present)
Suggested Skills and Processes
Kansas Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography, December 2004
Grades K-12
Content
Focus
High School
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
X
X
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Adapted from the Kansas Standards for Civics-Government, Economics, Geography, and History, 1999, p. 9-12 and The Skills and Processes
Scope and Sequence Chart/Sherry Reed/SEKESC-Greenbush/7-00. Adapted for this document by Kris Shaw, Education Program
Consultant, KSDE, and Sherry Reed, Curriculum Coordinator, USD 437 Auburn Washburn, Jan. 2005.
The purpose of this tool is to help local districts align curriculum to include social studies skills. This chart is not exhaustive. Please use this
as a springboard to develop local curriculum.
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Analyze Maps
Specialized Map
Making and
Interpretation
Money/Exchange
Comparing Costs
and Benefits
Analyzing Supply
and Demand
Creating and
Analyzing a
Supply/Demand
Graph
Problem Solving
Graphic Organizers
3
Technical
reading &
text structure
Text
structure
-Math
-Technical
Reading
-Comparison
& Contrast
-Cause &
Effect
Comparison
& Contrast
-Cause &
Effect
-Comparison
& Contrast
-Cause &
Effect
-Inference
-Drawing
Conclusions
-Sequence
-Comparison
& Contrast
-Cause &
Effect
-Reading tool
for all
contents
-Organizing
thoughts
X
X
Civics-Gov’t
U.S. History:
1900Present
World History
(Renaissanc
e- Present)
6
U.S. &
History
1800-1900
5
Kansas
History &
Gov’t
4
World
Regions
(Geog.)
World Hist.
(Ancient Medieval
Civilizations)
2
Communities
(Local Hist.)
Then and
Now (Past
and Present)
Family
1
U.S. History
(Exp.-1800)
K
Kansas &
Regions of
the U.S.
Skills
Self
Literacy
Skills
Suggested Skills and Processes
Kansas Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography, December 2004
Grades K-12
Content
Focus
7
8
High School
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
Adapted from the Kansas Standards for Civics-Government, Economics, Geography, and History, 1999, p. 9-12 and The Skills and Processes
Scope and Sequence Chart/Sherry Reed/SEKESC-Greenbush/7-00. Adapted for this document by Kris Shaw, Education Program
Consultant, KSDE, and Sherry Reed, Curriculum Coordinator, USD 437 Auburn Washburn, Jan. 2005.
The purpose of this tool is to help local districts align curriculum to include social studies skills. This chart is not exhaustive. Please use this
as a springboard to develop local curriculum.
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Reasoned
Persuasion
Cause and Effect
-Author’s
purpose
-Cause &
effect
-Draws
conclusions
-Analyze
-Draws
conclusions
-Retell or
summarize
Decision Making
Analyzing Issues
Drawing
Conclusions
Comprehension
and Composition
Skills
Responding to
Literature
Story Retelling
Locating Main
Ideas and Details
Locating
Information Using a
Variety of Sources
Locating,
Evaluating, and
Listing Resources
Civics-Gov’t
U.S. History:
1900Present
World History
(Renaissanc
e- Present)
Communities
(Local Hist.)
Then and
Now (Past
and Present)
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
World
Regions
(Geog.)
U.S. &
History
1800-1900
1
Kansas
History &
Gov’t
K
Family
World Hist.
(Ancient Medieval
Civilizations)
-Main idea
-Main idea
-Compare/
Contrast/
Analyze
U.S. History
(Exp.-1800)
Observing
Memorizing
Compare/
Contrast/
Analyze
Kansas &
Regions of
the U.S.
Skills
Self
Literacy
Skills
Suggested Skills and Processes
Kansas Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography, December 2004
Grades K-12
Content
Focus
High School
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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-Responds to
text
-Retells
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
-Main idea &
supporting
details
-Reference
materials
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
-Research
skills
Adapted from the Kansas Standards for Civics-Government, Economics, Geography, and History, 1999, p. 9-12 and The Skills and Processes
Scope and Sequence Chart/Sherry Reed/SEKESC-Greenbush/7-00. Adapted for this document by Kris Shaw, Education Program
Consultant, KSDE, and Sherry Reed, Curriculum Coordinator, USD 437 Auburn Washburn, Jan. 2005.
The purpose of this tool is to help local districts align curriculum to include social studies skills. This chart is not exhaustive. Please use this
as a springboard to develop local curriculum.
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Evaluating Written
and Non-Written
Sources
Evaluating the
Objectivity and
Validity of Sources
Identifying Primary
and Secondary
Sources
Using Primary and
Secondary Sources
Using Primary and
Secondary Sources
for Expository and
Persuasive
Purposes
Using Local
Resources
(Museums,
Libraries, etc.)
Collecting,
Organizing, and
Presenting Data
Organizing
Information
(outlining,
summarizing, and
citing)
Collecting,
Organizing,
Presenting, and
Evaluating Data
3
-Research
skills
-Makes
inferences &
draws
conclusions
-Research
skills
-Research
skills
-Research
skills
-Expository &
persuasive
text
-Research
skills
-Resources
-Research
skills
-Research
skills
-Main idea
Summarizing
-Research
skills
X
X
X
X
X
7
8
X
X
Civics-Gov’t
U.S. History:
1900Present
World History
(Renaissanc
e- Present)
6
U.S. &
History
1800-1900
5
Kansas
History &
Gov’t
4
World
Regions
(Geog.)
World Hist.
(Ancient Medieval
Civilizations)
2
Communities
(Local Hist.)
Then and
Now (Past
and Present)
Family
1
U.S. History
(Exp.-1800)
K
Kansas &
Regions of
the U.S.
Skills
Self
Literacy
Skills
Suggested Skills and Processes
Kansas Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography, December 2004
Grades K-12
Content
Focus
High School
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
X
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X
X
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X
X
X
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X
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Adapted from the Kansas Standards for Civics-Government, Economics, Geography, and History, 1999, p. 9-12 and The Skills and Processes
Scope and Sequence Chart/Sherry Reed/SEKESC-Greenbush/7-00. Adapted for this document by Kris Shaw, Education Program
Consultant, KSDE, and Sherry Reed, Curriculum Coordinator, USD 437 Auburn Washburn, Jan. 2005.
The purpose of this tool is to help local districts align curriculum to include social studies skills. This chart is not exhaustive. Please use this
as a springboard to develop local curriculum.
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-Research
skills
-Research
skills
-Main idea
Summarizing
-Research
skills
-Main idea
Summarizing
X
X
X
Civics-Gov’t
U.S. History:
1900Present
World History
(Renaissanc
e- Present)
Communities
(Local Hist.)
5
6
7
8
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
U.S. &
History
1800-1900
4
Kansas
History &
Gov’t
3
World
Regions
(Geog.)
Family
Then and
Now (Past
and Present)
2
World Hist.
(Ancient Medieval
Civilizations)
Presenting
Historical
Information
1
U.S. History
(Exp.-1800)
Research Skills
(Including
Computer
Research, Internet,
etc.)
Speaking to
Present Ideas
K
Kansas &
Regions of
the U.S.
Skills
Self
Literacy
Skills
Suggested Skills and Processes
Kansas Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography, December 2004
Grades K-12
Content
Focus
High School
Adapted from the Kansas Standards for Civics-Government, Economics, Geography, and History, 1999, p. 9-12 and The Skills and Processes
Scope and Sequence Chart/Sherry Reed/SEKESC-Greenbush/7-00. Adapted for this document by Kris Shaw, Education Program
Consultant, KSDE, and Sherry Reed, Curriculum Coordinator, USD 437 Auburn Washburn, Jan. 2005.
The purpose of this tool is to help local districts align curriculum to include social studies skills. This chart is not exhaustive. Please use this
as a springboard to develop local curriculum.
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Standards for History and Government;
Economics and Geography
Recommended
Scope and Sequence
For Alignment
Grade
K
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
High School
Focus
Self
Families
Then and Now (Past and Present)
Communities (Local History)
Kansas and Regions of the United States
United States History (Beginnings to 1800)
World History (Ancient and Medieval Civilizations)
Semester 1 – World Geography
Semester 2 – Kansas History and Government
United States History (1800 – 1900)
World History (Renaissance to present)
-and United States History with Kansas History integrated
into coursework (1900 to present)
-andCivics-Government
Underlying Principle: historical and comparative
examples of civics-government, geography, and
economics are integrated into coursework K-12
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Civics-Government
Extended
Civics Government: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of the United
States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic
values of the American republican government, rights, privileges, and responsibilities to become active participants in the
democratic process.
Extended Benchmark 1 -- The student understands the rule of law as it applies to self, family, school, local, state,
and national governments.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Identifies rules found in his or her home, school, job, and/or
community.
2. Recognizes safety rules (e.g. poison, traffic, fire, personal safety,
work site, and/or community).
3. Describes government in terms of people and groups who make,
apply and/or enforce rules or laws for others in their family, school,
and community.
4. Identifies one or more reasons for various rules.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Gets in line and waits appropriately in cafeteria lunch line. (1)
 Understands that he or she must ask permission before leaving the
school building. (2)
 Recognizes school principal as the head of the school. (3)
 Tells new classmate the classroom rules and the reasons for them.
(4)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Rule of law - principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law.
▲

($)
(K)
(A)
Assessed Indicator
Foundation for Assessed Indicators
Personal Finance Literacy
Knowledge Indicator
Application Indicator
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Civics-Government
Extended
Civics Government: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of the United
States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic
values of the American republican government, rights, privileges, and responsibilities to become active participants in the
democratic process.
Extended Benchmark 2 - The student understands the shared ideals and the diversity of American society and
political culture.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Acknowledges the various symbols used to depict Americans
shared values, principles, or beliefs.
2. Shows the qualities of a law-abiding citizen.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Identifies the American flag from the flags of other countries. (1)
 Follows teacher's directions when told where to store new classroom
materials. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
▲

($)
(K)
(A)
Assessed Indicator
Foundation for Assessed Indicators
Personal Finance Literacy
Knowledge Indicator
Application Indicator
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Civics-Government
Extended
Civics Government: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of the United
States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic
values of the American republican government, rights, privileges, and responsibilities to become active participants in the
democratic process.
Extended Benchmark 3 - The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates and restricts power
and responsibility in the government.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Knows the basic rights that are guaranteed by the United States
Constitution.
2. Identifies the roles of the federal government, the three branches,
and/or the people in those branches.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Understands that at age eighteen he or she has the right to vote (Bill
of Rights). (1)
 Identifies a picture of the current United States President during
discussion of upcoming elections. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Extended
Civics Government: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of the United
States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic
values of the American republican government, rights, privileges, and responsibilities to become active participants in the
democratic process.
Extended Benchmark 4 - The student identifies the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active civic
participant.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Identifies or demonstrates an understanding of individual rights,
privileges, and/or responsibilities.
2. Identifies or demonstrates an understanding of rights, privileges,
and responsibilities of the individual in groups.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Shows responsibility for his or her personal items. (1)
 Participates as a member of a cooperative learning group during
government class. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Privileges - a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Extended
Civics Government: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of the United
States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic
values of the American republican government, rights, privileges, and responsibilities to become active participants in the
democratic process.
Extended Benchmark 5 - The student understands people and functions of Kansas state government.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Identifies the roles of Kansas government, the branches, and/or
people in these branches.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Identifies the picture of the current governor of Kansas. (1)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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Economics
Extended
Economics: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and systems,
applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United States
living in an interdependent world.
Extended Benchmark 1 - The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Understands the concept that rewards are earned in exchange for
performance.
2. Understands that providers must receive something (e.g., money)
for exchange of goods or services.
3. Understands the origin of particular goods.
4. Identifies the functions of various stores and/or businesses.
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Exchanges the tokens that he or she has earned for a reward at the
end of the school day. (1)
 Exchanges his or her meal ticket for food in cafeteria lunch line. (2)
 Participates in cooperative group project about how wheat becomes
bread. (3)
 Understands concession stand provides snacks during sporting
events. (4)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
Extended
Economics: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and systems,
applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United States
living in an interdependent world.
Extended Benchmark 2 - The student recognizes the role of the government in the economy.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Identifies and/or uses services provided by the government for all
members of the community.
2. Understands that there are some government services for which a
person must qualify.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Accompanies his or her parent(s) to neighborhood public school for
enrollment. (1)
 Recognizes that the information contained in the free and reduced
lunch application is confidential. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
Extended
Economics: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and systems,
applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United States
living in an interdependent world.
Extended Benchmark 3 - The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, and saver.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Understands that spending is the exchange of money for goods
and/or services.
2. Distinguishes between spending, borrowing, trading, and/or
stealing.
3. Understands that scarcity of resources requires choices.
4. Understands that individual economic choices have
consequences.
5. Demonstrates an understanding of the concept of saving
resources for a future purpose.
Extended Clarifying Examples
 purchases his or her supplies at school store or vending machine.
(1)
 refuses to loan money to a classmate. (2)
 shares time on the computer with classmates. (3)
 saves money by purchasing ticket for school event during school
hours ($3.00) instead of at the door ($4.00). (4)
 participates in class project for which students bring change/coins
for a group donation to charitable organization. (5)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Scarcity - not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
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Geography
Extended
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that occur
in our interconnected world.
Extended Benchmark 1 – Maps and Location to Geographic Tools and Location The student uses maps, graphic
representations, tools, and technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Responds to terms related to location, direction, and/or distance.
2. Identifies the locations of places within his or her environment.
3. Demonstrates that particular locations are used for certain human
activities.
4. Uses a map and/or globe.
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Passes materials to other students, according to teacher's directions
(next to, behind, in front of). (1)
 Goes to designated area when he or she enters the school building
at the start of the school day (cafeteria, commons area). (2)
 Goes to the school office to purchase a lunch ticket before scheduled
lunch period. (3)
 Locates boy or girls restroom at new school by identifying the
symbol. (4)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
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Geography
Extended
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the
interactions that occur in our interconnected world.
Extended Benchmark 2 – Places and Regions: The student understands the spatial organization of people, places,
and environments.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Describes the physical and/or human characteristics of regional
environments.
2. Identifies physical or human activities that have taken place over
time in the local region.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Selects lunch items on special "theme" days (Wild West, Cinco de
Mayo). (1)
 Understands that when he or she is moving to another classroom or
school the class membership changes. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Geography
Extended
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s
surface and relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the
interactions that occur in our interconnected world.
Extended Benchmark 3 - Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical
processes shape the environment.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Demonstrates an understanding of how earth's physical systems
affect him or her personally.
2. Demonstrates an understanding of how earth's physical systems
affect the regional environment.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Participates in scheduled tornado drill by going to the designated
area and covering his or her head. (1)
 Participates in a cooperative learning group describing how the
weather affects crops grown in Kansas. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Physical systems - processes that create, maintain, and modify Earth’s physical features and environments, consisting of four categories: atmospheric (e.g.,
climate), lithospheric (plate tectonics, erosion), hydrospheric (water cycle, ocean currents), and biospheric (plant and animal communities).
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Geography
Extended
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the
interactions that occur in our interconnected world.
Extended Benchmark 4 - Human Systems: The student understands how cultural and/or social elements influence
people in a region.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Understands characteristics of a community.
2. Describes and/or compares cultural characteristics or patterns
within a region.
3. Understands the process of conflict.
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Recognizes peers from his or her classroom when in the cafeteria or
hall. (1)
 Carries his or her school supplies to and from classes and/or school
in a book bag. (2)
 Accepts the teacher instructions for him or her to stop working and
join classmates in another activity. (3)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Cultural characteristics - (See culture; human feature)
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Geography
Extended
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships among people, places, and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that occur
in our interconnected world.
Extended Benchmark 5 - Human-Environmental Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions
between human and physical systems.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Adapts to variations in the physical environment.
2. Participates in activities to help the environment.
3. Demonstrates an understanding of the negative or positive impact
his or her daily personal activities have on environments, objects, or
people in the environments.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Participates in group project that demonstrates the water cycle. (1)
 Places his or her empty recyclable bottles or cans in recycle
container located near the vending machines. (2)
 Puts away materials in a designated location so that they can be
found easily the next time that they are needed. (3)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
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History
Extended
History: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events,
eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Extended Benchmark 1 - The student understands the significance of important individuals and major developments
in history.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Expresses knowledge of personal ancestors and/or family history.
2. Recognizes the importance of Kansas and United States historical
figures.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Answers questions relating to his or her family. (1)
 Identifies George Washington as the first president of the United
States. (2)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
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History
Extended
History: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events,
eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Extended Benchmark 2 – The student understands the importance of experiences of groups of people who have
contributed to the richness of our heritage.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Understands that things that have happened in the past affect the
way people live, think, or feel in the present.
Special Notes
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Describes the feelings of people participating in specific local,
national or world events. (1)
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
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History
Extended
History: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events,
eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Extended Benchmark 3 - The student understands the significance of events, holidays, industries, people and / or
symbols which are important in Kansas history.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Recognizes Kansas state symbols.
2. Identifies Kansas events, holidays, industries, and/or people.
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Recognizes that the name of the state comes from the Kansa
Indians. (1)
 Gives report on famous Kansan (e.g., Gordon Parks, Dwight
Eisenhower, Amelia Earhart). (2)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
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History
Extended
History: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events,
eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Extended Benchmark 4 - The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, or symbols,
which are important in United States history.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. Identifies one or more national holidays and/or the customs
associated with that holiday.
2. Recognizes national events, documents, or symbols.
Extended Clarifying Examples
 Understands that there may be no school on scheduled national
holidays (e.g., Martin Luther King Day, Veterans’ Day). (1)
 Participates in the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of the school
day (as appropriate). (2)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
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History
Extended
History: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events,
eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Extended Benchmark 5 - The student understands the significance of events, holidays, industries, people and/or
symbols which are important in World history.
Extended Knowledge Base Indicators
1. identifies world holidays, industries, symbols, and / or people.
2. recognizes the importance of major world events (historical and
current).
Extended Clarifying Examples
 distinguishes between the United States flag and the flags of other
countries. (1)
 gives a definition of war during a class discussion about the Viet
Nam war. (2)
Special Notes
A variety of clarifying examples that illustrate the range of application possibilities is included in chapter ___
The extended standards are written to address a wide variety of response and communication modalities or methods used by
students who qualify for the alternate assessment. These are individually determined by the IEP team.
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Civics-Government
Kindergarten
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes rules and why they exist (e.g., home, classroom,
playground).
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Develop class rules through whole group discussion. Make a poster
illustrating the rules agreed upon. (1)
 Use a fire or tornado drill to discuss the importance of safety issues
and the need for rules. (1)
 Share a rule that is enforced at home by drawing a picture and
explaining why it is important to the family. (1)
Teacher Notes:
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Civics-Government
Kindergarten
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes appropriate ways to behave in the classroom.
2. (K) identifies the characteristics of a friend and/or helpful classmate.
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Read a variety of books on manners and then have students
demonstrate good manners by role playing. (1)
 Draw a picture of a good deed or act of kindness. (1, 2)
 Write a note of appreciation to a friend, guardian, teacher, or other
role-model. (1, 2)
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Civics-Government
Kindergarten
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) knows school authority figures and ways they establish order
and provide safety in a school setting.
Teacher Notes:
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 Ask the principal or a school official to visit the class for a question
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Civics-Government
Kindergarten
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) demonstrates good citizenship (e.g., sharing, listening, taking
turns, and following rules).
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Discuss: what is a citizen? Encourage students to nominate a
student for a good citizen award. (1) See also: EB5I1
 After discussion, have each student draw or write three good deeds
of “good citizenship.” Challenge students to accomplish all three by
the end of the week. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
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Civics-Government
Kindergarten
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) identifies leaders at home and school (e.g., parents, guardians,
teachers, principal).
Teacher Notes:
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Use a camera to take pictures, or collect pictures from print media to
identify leaders. (1)
1.  C5B2I4
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Economics
Kindergarten
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems of the United States and other nations; and applies decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver,
investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) understands that a person cannot have everything he/she
wants, so a choice has to be made (e.g., play video games or
watch television; play on swings or play soccer).
2. (K) - ($) explains what he/she gives up when a choice is made.
Teacher Notes:
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Have two different items that each student would have to choose
between. After choice is made, tell what the choice was and what
was given up. (1, 2) See also: HB1I1
1.  E6B1I1
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Economics
Kindergarten
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) understands the use of money to purchase goods and
services.
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Role-play a “store” scene where a customer is buying something.
Provide “classroom” currency to “buy” items. (1)
 Show pictures or commercials of people purchasing goods or
services. Discuss what is used to buy these items. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
Kindergarten
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) discusses the benefits of saving money.
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Share examples of why saving money earned or received as gifts is
a benefit: to purchase an item in the future, to help with an
unexpected emergency. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E5B5I1
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
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Economics
Kindergarten
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
Teacher Notes:
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Economics
Kindergarten
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues,
and systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the
United States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) - ($) gives examples of types of jobs that he/she does within the
family.
Teacher Notes:
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 List jobs performed at home: washing dishes, picking up room,
feeding animals, getting mail, taking out the trash. (1) See also:
HB3I1, GB5I1, C-GB4I1
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Geography
Kindergarten
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) identifies and correctly uses terms related to location, direction,
and distance (e.g., up/down, left/right, near/far, here/there).
2.(K) locates major geography features (e.g., Equator, North Pole,
South Pole, his/her Hometown, Kansas).
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Use directional terms related to location, direction, and distance
when giving verbal directions. (1)
 Read and discuss children’s stories using relative location terms
such as near, far, towards, away from, next to, etc. (1)
 Play “I Spy” to practice locating places and features on a map. (2)
See also: HB3I3
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B1I1
2.  G5B1I2
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Relative location - the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
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Geography
Kindergarten
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes characteristics of local surroundings (e.g., classroom,
playground, neighborhood, city, school).
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Tape video footage of local surroundings. Then, as a class view the
video and pick out interesting or defining characteristics about the
people, place, or environment. (1) See also: HB2I2
 Describe the physical characteristics of the local surroundings in
words and sketches. (1) See also: HB2I2
Teacher Notes:
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Geography
Kindergarten
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes shape Earth’s
surface.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) describes seasonal changes and how they affect an individual.
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Collect and record weather data to create a class weather graph.
Allow each student to be the “weather person.” Discuss seasonal
changes and their impact on students. (1)
 Use pictures to show the seasons. (1)
Teacher Notes:
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Geography
Kindergarten
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
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Geography
Kindergarten
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies ways people can maintain or improve the quality of
their environment.
Teacher Notes:
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 Draw pictures showing how people have littered, damaged, or
improved the local environment. (1)
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Kindergarten
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the significance of important individuals and major developments in
history.
Kindergarten Knowledge and Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies and explains how tools and technology used in the
home/school meet people’s needs.
Teacher Notes:
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Hold a scavenger search to identify examples of tools and
technology and determine as a group how each item meets people’s
needs. (1)
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Kindergarten
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the importance of the experiences of groups of people who have
contributed to the richness of our heritage.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains how each individual has a personal history.
2.(A) compares and contrasts his/her own life with life in a city and/or
a rural community.
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Create a template for students to take home to research their
personal history. (1)
 Make two collages from pictures found in print media: one for city
and one for rural. (1)
Teacher Notes:
2.  H5B2I3
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Kindergarten
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, and symbols that are
important to Kansas, United States, and World history.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies family customs and traditions and explains their
importance.
2. (K) understands that Kansas is a state in the United States and the
significance of Kansas Day as the celebration of the state’s
birthday.
3. (A) locates the state of Kansas using a map of the United States.
4. (K) recognizes important Kansas state symbols (e.g., state bird –
meadowlark, state flower – sunflower, state animal-buffalo).
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
 Conduct oral interviews on how families celebrate holidays; structure
an “interview” form for a family member to fill out. (1)
 Make a large “birthday cake” out of construction paper for January
29th. Obtain about 150 straws. Attach the appropriate amount of
straws on the Kansas’ Birthday Cake. Sing Happy Birthday to
Kansas after explaining that Kansas Day (January 29) is the day
Kansas “was born” as a state. The other states are like its brothers
and sisters and each has a time it “was born” as a part of the United
States. (2)
 Bite the upper right-hand corner off of a graham cracker rectangle or
Hershey bar rectangle. Use a map and try to match the shape of
their food object to a state on the map. It should “match” with
Kansas. Point out the location of Kansas within the contiguous
states. (3)
 Make a booklet of Kansas symbols; books are available on-line from
the Kansas State Historical Society at www.kshs.org. (4)
Teacher Notes:
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Kindergarten
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Kindergarten Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
Kindergarten Instructional Suggestions
The student:
1.(K) places events in sequential order.
2. (A) uses information to find main idea.
3. (K) scans historic photographs to gain information.
4. (A) asks questions, shares information, and discusses ideas about
the past.
 Use children’s stories to discuss what happened first, second, next,
and last for a given day. (1, 2)
 Look at a historical photograph about a family to find details about
the family from the photograph. Write a short story about a day in
the life of someone in the picture. Use www.kshs.org to access
historic photographs. (1, 2, 3, 4)
 Read a historical story and develop questions, share information and
discuss historical ideas. (1, 2, 4)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B4I1
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Civics-Government
First Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) discusses the need for rules in the family, school, and
community with an understanding of both positive and negative
consequences.
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Have students identify signs in the community and discuss what
would happen if those signs (stop sign, pedestrian sign, bus stop,
speed limit) did not exist. (1)
 Allow students to make classroom rules, determining which are most
important and why. Vote on preferences. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Civics-Government
First Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies shared ideals within American society (e.g., truth,
fairness, justice, loyalty, freedom).
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Have students tell about a situation, they felt was “unfair.” Ask them
to develop ways to have made that situation more fair. (1)
 Create illustrated posters of the 6 Pillars of Character:
trustworthiness, citizenship, respect, fairness, responsibility, and
caring. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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Civics-Government
First Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) demonstrates leadership qualities by taking on responsibilities
in the classroom and home (e.g., line leader, passing out papers,
keeping room clean).
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Have whole class discussion on leadership qualities and then have
students nominate a class “president” or a “leader of the week.” (1)
 After discussing leadership responsibilities, have each student serve
as the leader of a cooperative group, making certain that every
student has the opportunity to serve. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
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Civics-Government
First Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies privileges as benefits which can be granted or taken
away (e.g., being first in line, attending a field trip, extended recess
time).
Teacher Notes:
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 List and discuss privileges received at home and school. Explain
who grants privileges (parents, guardians, teacher, principal), and
under what circumstances privileges might be taken away. (1)
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Privileges - a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all.
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Civics-Government
First Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) recognizes that people can make rules and leaders can enforce
rules.
Teacher Notes:
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Develop a set of class rules for behavior in different settings: lunch,
recess, library. Develop consequences and positive incentives for
behavior. (1)
1.  C5B2I4, C5B3I4
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Economics
First Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
The student:
1.(K) - ($) understands individuals and families cannot have
everything they want, so they have to make choices (e.g., having to
decide whether to buy a new video game or a pair of shoes).
 Discuss choices made by families: buying a new television vs. taking
a vacation, or going to the movies vs. renting a movie. (1) See also:
HB2I15, GB5I1
 Make a choice about a school lunch: A) hot lunch or B) sack lunch.
Place emphasis on the fact a choice must be made; having both is
not an option.
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1
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Economics
First Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) understands the concept of exchange and the use of
money to purchase goods and services.
Teacher Notes:
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Role-play buyer and seller buying something at a store. (1)
 Show pictures or commercials of people buying things at a store.
Discuss what is used to buying these items. (1)
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
First Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local, national,
and international interdependence affect people.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) discusses why people save money in a bank.
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Discuss why saving money in a bank is good: safety, make more
money, future use, to buy something that costs a lot. Illustrate
saving money in a bank. Write at the bottom of picture, “Saving
money is good.” (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E5B5I1
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Savings - income that is not spent, setting aside income or money for future use.
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Economics
First Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at anther grade level.
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Economics
First Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) understands that people have jobs to earn a wage.
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Cut a picture out of a magazine or draw a picture of a person
performing a job and identify the job they are performing. (1)
 Write one or two sentences about why people have jobs; people
have jobs to earn a wage; people can buy things with the money
earned from working at a job. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Geography
First Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) describes the purposes of maps and globes (e.g., model of
earth, representation of earth’s features).
2. (A) finds Kansas on a wall map.
3. (A) makes a map to represent some location important to them.
4. (K) locates major geography locations (e.g., United States,
Canada, Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean)
Teacher Notes:
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Describe the globe as a model of Earth, dolls are models of people,
toy cars are models of cars. (1)
 Use pictorial symbols and color to make simple maps of local areas.
Make a key to show what the symbols represent: bedroom, kitchen,
classroom, play ground. (3)
 Play “I Spy” to practice locating places and features on a map. (2, 4)
1.  G6B1I1
4.  G5B1I2
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
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Geography
First Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) maps physical and human features of the school (e.g., physical:
hills, creeks, trees; human: play equipment, fences, sidewalks).
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 As a group or individual, make a map of the school playground (1)
 Look at photos of important local places. Make model buildings from
milk cartons. Discuss: Who works there? How is your model like the
post office picture? Who uses this place? Assemble the city or
neighborhood. (1)
 Describe the physical and human features seen on a field trip. Have
students make symbols of these features to create an interactive
bulletin board map of the field trip. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B1I1
Human feature (human characteristics) - items built by people that modify the earth’s surface (cities, roads, dams, mines).
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
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Geography
First Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) observes and identifies local weather conditions and patterns.
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Include observation and identification of local weather conditions and
patterns as a part of daily calendar activities. Keep a daily log of wind
direction, temperature, precipitation, and general conditions over time
to explain how weather in the local community changes. (1)
 Create a classroom weather graph. Collect and record weather data
throughout the school year. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Geography
First Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
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Geography
First Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies ways in which people depend on the physical
environment to meet needs and wants (e.g., water, food, fuel).
2. (K) describes how the physical environment impacts humans (e.g.,
choices of clothing, housing, crops, recreation).
3. (A) lists ways people can maintain or help the quality of their
environment.
Teacher Notes:
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create a T chart listing “what we need” and “what we want” in order
to survive. (1) See also: EB1I1, HB2I1
 Make a four flap brochure and draw pictures of self with clothing
appropriate for each season. (2)
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
First Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the significance of important individuals and major developments in history.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) tells the story of an important person in his/her life.
2.(K) identifies the office of the president as the leader of the United
States and identifies the first president and the current president.
Teacher Notes:
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Explore family history by interviewing grandparents, parents, or other
adult family members. (1)
 Research information about George Washington and the current
president; have students describe what presidents do. (2)
2.  C5B3I4, C5B2I4
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Kansas, United States, and World History
First Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the importance of the experiences of groups of people who have contributed
to the richness of our heritage.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) describes the needs of a family (e.g., food, shelter).
2. (K) describes the different foods produced in Kansas over time
(e.g., wheat, corn, soybeans, sunflowers, livestock).
3. (A) compares at least two types of shelter used by families today
(e.g., apartment, frame house, mobile home, duplex).
4.(A) compares types of shelter used by American Indians in Kansas
over time (e.g., grass lodge, tipi, earth lodge, frame house).
5.(K) identifies types of shelter used by early Kansas families (e.g.,
dugouts, sod houses, log cabins, frame houses).
6.(A) uses a timeline to share the history of a family (e.g., his/her own
family, a family from literature).
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Think about important things family members do for one another.
Write a sentence:” ____________ is important in my family because
he /she ___________.”. Draw a picture to illustrate the sentence. (1)
 As a class, design a bulletin board, display, or photo collage
illustrating food sources produced in Kansas. (2)
 Take a field trip of the neighborhood to view different types of
homes; compare these structures in terms of materials, shapes, etc.
(3)
 Build models of two types of American Indian houses; compare
these structures in terms of materials, shapes, etc. (4)
 Draw a picture of one’s home; compare its shape, building materials,
and number of rooms with a dugout, sod house, log cabin, or frame
house. (5)
 Create a timeline of one’s family or a family from literature:
grandparents, parents, child. (6)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1
4.  H5B1I1
5.  E6B1I1
6.  H5B4I1
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
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Kansas, United States, and World History
First Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, and symbols that are
important to Kansas, United States and World history.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes the United States flag, Pledge of Allegiance, and
bald eagle as important national symbols.
2. (K) recognizes the Kansas flag and identifies the symbols on it
(e.g., motto, stars, American Indians and buffalo, farmer plowing,
pioneers and cabin, steamboat, etc.).
3. (K) identifies some important United States national holidays (e.g.,
Independence Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving,
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day).
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 Use books, articles, computers, and music to learn about United
States symbols. (1)
 Prepare a short skit about the meaning behind the symbols on the
Kansas flag and present to another class. (2)
 Choose a national holiday and tell why it is important. (3)
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Kansas, United States, and World History
First Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
First Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) puts events in chronological order.
2.(A) uses information to provide details to support a main idea in
history.
3. (A) asks questions, shares information and discusses ideas about
the past using resources such as maps, photographs, books, and
people.
First Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Identify sequential actions, such as first, next, last, in stories, videos,
etc.; correctly uses chronological words: now, long ago, before, after
morning, afternoon, night, today, tomorrow, yesterday, present, past,
future. (1, 2)
 Role-play understanding of the main idea; use graphic organizers to
retell the main idea and relate supporting details from texts. (2)
 Listen to or read informational text from books, magazines,
biographies, internet, and interviews to develop questions, share
information and discuss historical events. (1, 2, 3)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B4I1
2.  H6B4I1
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Civics-Government
Second Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes that rules provide order and safety and benefit all
school and community members.
Teacher Notes:
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use school handbook to identify and discuss school rules. (1)
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Civics-Government
Second Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies and defines the characteristics of a good citizen (e.g.,
honesty, courage, patriotism, tolerance, respect).
Teacher Notes:
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Using pictures from newspapers, magazines, identify types of people
who model good citizenship: soldier, fireman, teacher, community
leader, a good neighbor. (1)
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Patriotism - loyalty and devotion to one’s country.
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Civics-Government
Second Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) recognizes that the United States Constitution is a written plan
for the rules of government (e.g., knows the Constitution lists rules
of the government compared to the rules for the family, classroom,
or school).
Teacher Notes:
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Show a replica of the United States Constitution. Pose questions for
discussion: Why would a group of people create such a document?
Can rules ever be changed? Are the “rules” in the Constitution for
some or for everyone? (1)
1.  H5B3I6, C6B4I1
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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Civics-Government
Second Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) discusses how rights and privileges change over time and in
different situations (e.g., the right to vote at eighteen, the privilege
of being louder on the playground than in the classroom).
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use two-column organizer to list rights (speaking, going to school,
safety) and privileges (to have extended recess time, seeing a
movie, class party, staying up late). Discuss how privileges are
earned. (1)
 Create a personal timeline of the rights and privileges that each is
hoping will be awarded over time: staying up late, walking to a
friend’s house alone, driving, etc. Discuss how rights and privileges
are related to age and maturity. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Privileges - a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Second Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) demonstrates leadership in the classroom.
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Allow students to have opportunities for leadership throughout the
academic year: cooperative group leader, line leader, library helper,
class president. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  C5B2I4
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Economics
Second Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) knows the difference between goods and services, and provides
examples how each satisfies people’s wants and needs.
2. (K) identifies examples of producers and consumers.
3.(A) - ($) identifies the opportunity cost of a choice (e.g., next best
alternative not chosen).
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Look at a group of pictures and sort them into goods and services.
For each picture identify if it satisfies a want or a need. (1) See also:
HB1I1&2
 Make a Venn diagram of producers and consumers. (2) See also:
GB2I1, GB3I1, BB4I1
 Fill a choice tray with small items such as gum, candy, toys, etc.
Have student choose two favorite items. Tell students they may only
have one item. The item returned to the tray is the opportunity cost.
Note: distinguish the next best alternative. (3) See also: GB5I1
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1
3.  E5B5I1
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Opportunity cost - in making a decision, the most valuable alternative not chosen.
Producer - one that produces, especially a person or organization that produces goods or services for sale.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Economics
Second Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) understands the concept of exchange and the use of
money to purchase goods and services (e.g., trade with barter or
money).
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Write a class story about two or more characters that trade by both
barter and by use of money. (1) See also: HB2I1&2, GB1I1
 Show two pictures to the class: trade using the barter system and
trade using the money system. Discuss the difference between
barter and money. Role-play both types of trade. Illustrate a barter
scene and label picture, “Trade with barter,” and then illustrate a
trade scene with money labeled, “Trade with money.” (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B3I2
Barter - trading goods or services without the use of money.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Economics
Second Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) explains the advantage of choosing to save or spend
money that is earned or received.
2.(K) - ($) defines a budget as a plan for spending and saving income.
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Draw a cartoon strip showing the following: someone depositing
money in a bank (write deposit $1.00 under the picture), an item with
a price tag -$3.00 (write saving for ______ under the picture),
someone depositing money in a bank ( write deposit $2.00 under the
picture), illustrate the math problem 1 + 2 = 3 using dollar bills (write I
have saved enough to buy ______), someone withdrawing money
from the bank,(write withdrawing savings under the picture),
purchasing the item with the money, (write purchasing _________
under the picture). (1, 2)
 Using a table, make a simple classroom budget with income,
spending items (lunch, school supplies, etc.-customize it to your
classroom). Have students make their own budget using items from
their desks. The teacher will need to set the income and the
students will need to pick items that will fit within that income:
(income $5.00; spending items: pencil $0.50, glue $ 1.00). (1, 2)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E5B5I1
2.  E5B5I1
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
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Economics
Second Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
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Economics
Second Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) understands that people earn an income and sometimes
benefits for the work they do and gives examples of different types
of work within a community both today and in the past.
2.(K) - ($) knows that a decision-making process can help people
make spending and saving decisions.
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Brainstorm types of jobs that people have in the community. (1) See
also: HB2I1, GB2I1, GB4I1
 Allow students five minutes to make a list of everything they would
buy if they had unlimited money. Compile their choices into a class
list and discuss why you would need to save in order to purchase
them. (1, 2) See also: HB2I1
 Have each student draw or cut out from a magazine different items
that they would like to have (teacher may want to limit the number to
three or four items), have the students draw a moneybag with the
word INCOME and a monetary amount (teacher will tell each student
what amount to write on their bag (amounts should be different)
written on the bags. Draw a T chart on a large sheet of paper, have
the words SPENDING written at the top of one side of the T chart
and SAVING written at the top of the other side of the T chart. Have
each student bring up their moneybag and one item that they have
chosen (or illustrated). As a class decide if the student has enough
money from income to purchase the item. If they do, tape the item
on the SPENDING side, if they do not have enough income tape the
item on the SAVING side and have the student tell why they cannot
buy the item right now (I do not have enough income to buy
_______. I need to save my income until I have enough money to
buy _________.) This may be repeated until all of the students have
taped all of their items on the T chart. (1, 2)
Teacher Notes:
2.  E5B5I1
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
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Geography
Second Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) makes and uses maps to represent and locate familiar places
within cities and Kansas (e.g., title, symbols, legend, compass rose,
cardinal directions, grid system).
2.(K) identifies and correctly uses terms: North, South, East, West.
3.(K) locates major geography features (e.g., Rocky Mountains,
Missouri River, Gulf of Mexico, Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka,
Washington, DC).
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Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
Locate a specific place or symbol using an overhead map of the
area overlaid with a grid: school yard, playground, neighborhood. (1)
Prior to a field trip, use a teacher drawn simplified map of the area to
trace the route to the field trip destination. (1)
Using cardinal direction cards posted in the classroom, play “I Spy”
to locate a person or object in the room: “I spy a person sitting south
of Susie.” (2)
Attach a compass rose to the top of student desks to use for
practice with directions. (2)
Use the vocabulary of North, South, East, and West when giving
directions for common classroom procedures: “Line up and face
north.” (2)
Have a geography question of the day using the map. (1, 2, 3)
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B1I1
2.  G6B1I1
3.  G5B1I2
Compass rose - a drawing that shows the orientation of north, south, east, and west on a map.
Legend - an explanatory description or key to features on a map or chart.
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
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Geography
Second Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) identifies physical and human changes that have taken place
over time in the local region (e.g., physical: tornadoes, drought,
Kansas as an inland sea; human: new shopping centers, highways,
houses).
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Conduct an interview with older students or parents to learn about
physical changes to the school that have taken place since they
have attended there. (1) See also: HB4I2, HB4I4
 Use photographs and/or maps to compare differences within a city
and/or state over time: city boundaries, buildings, roads. (1)
See also: HB1I1, HB1I2, HB1I3, HB4I2, HB4I4
 Invite a guest speaker who is familiar with the community (e.g.,
grandparent, school staff member) to talk about changes. (1) See
also: HB4I2, HB4I3, HB4I4
 Discuss ongoing changes in the neighborhood: new houses,
telephone wires, planting trees, bridges, roads, parking lots. Discuss
how these change the land. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H6B4I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Geography
Second Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes how weather affects environment (e.g., deciding when
crops are planted and harvested, lack of rain causes drought, early
freeze kills plants).
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Mound soil or sand in a rectangular container. Use a watering can
sprinkler to simulate rain. Observe the changes that take place.
Repeat this procedure in a second pan that has soil with grass roots.
Compare the results. (1) See also: HB4I3
 Go for a walk outside and look for signs of weathering. (1) See also:
HB4I3
 Use plants in milk cartons to observe and record the effects of
watering, not watering, and over watering. (1) See also: HB4I3
Teacher Notes:
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Geography
Second Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) identifies the past and present settlement or development
patterns of his/her community or local area.
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Brainstorm reasons why places are located where they are: airports
outside the city, hotels in downtown areas, parks’ locations, grocery
stores, churches, stoplights and stop signs, malls. (1) See also:
HB4I4
 Research and map where their family ancestors came from. (1) See
also: HB2I2, HB2I3, HB4I2
 Interview grandparents to find out why their families settled in
Kansas and what they did. (1) See also: HB2I3, HB4I2
 Discuss cultural areas in our city and celebrations. (1) See also:
HB2I2
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1, H6B1I2
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
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Geography
Second Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) describe how physical systems influence people and their
activities.
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Research how physical systems influence farming: cattle grazing in
Flint Hills, crop damage due to bad weather, successful wheat
production due to rich soil and winter moisture. (1)
 Use pictures to describe how the environment affects crops and
livestock raised in Kansas. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1
Physical systems - processes that create, maintain, and modify Earth’s physical features and environments, consisting of four categories: atmospheric (e.g.,
climate), lithospheric (plate tectonics, erosion), hydrospheric (water cycle, ocean currents), and biospheric (plant and animal communities).
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Second Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the significance of important individuals and major developments in history.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
The student:
1.(A) compares various forms of transportation in Kansas past and
present (e.g., the horse, steamboat, trains, airplanes, cars).
2.(A) compares and contrasts the ways people communicate with
each other past and present.
3.(A) identifies important innovations made in the past that influence
today (e.g., Wright Brothers – airplane; Henry Ford – automobile;
Ancient China – irrigation, paper; Inca – highways to connect
cities).
4.(K) recognizes the impact of contributions made by leaders past
and present.
Teacher Notes:
 Find pictures of a variety of means of transportation used in the past
and present; do a commercial about a particular type of
transportation. (1)
 List kinds of communication described in books; make a poster
telling how these are alike and how they are different. (2)
 Describe how an important innovation from the past affects our lives
today. (3)
 Use story mapping to record information about a historically
significant person’s life; develop trading cards by drawing a picture of
a notable leader on one side and writing a list of his/her
accomplishments on the other. (4)
1.  H5B1I3, H6B4I1
2.  H5B1I3, H6B4I1
3.  H5B1I3, H6B4I1
4.  C5B2I4
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Second Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the importance of experiences of groups of people who have contributed to
the richness of our heritage.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) compares and contrasts daily life of an historic Plains Indian
family, a pioneer family, and a modern family in Kansas.
2.(A) defines immigration and gives past and present examples from
Kansas.
3.(K) defines history as the story of the past.
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use stories, artifacts and music to interpret some aspect of daily life
for a plains Indian family, a pioneer family, or a modern family in
Kansas. (1)
 Use primary and secondary sources to construct a table that
summarizes geographic, political, economic, and religious reasons
that brought immigrants to Kansas. (2)
 Write a play based on a folk song or story that describes a part of
Kansas history. (3)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B1I1, H6B4I1
2.  H6B4I1
3.  H6B4I1
Artifacts - objects that were used by people long ago.
Immigrant - a person (migrating into) coming to a particular country or area to live.
Immigration - to enter and settle in a country to which one is not native.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Second Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, and symbols that are
important to Kansas, United States and World history.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes the importance of the Declaration of Independence
and the Star Spangled Banner.
2. (A) locates and explains the importance of landmarks and historical
sites today (e.g., Plymouth Rock, United States Capitol, Statue of
Liberty, Kitty Hawk, Kansas State Capitol, Mt. Rushmore, Mesa
Verde, the Alamo, Sutter’s Mill).
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 Draw a picture representing an image from either the Declaration of
Independence or Star Spangled Banner. (1)
 Write clues that describe important national, historic landmarks and
sites; have other students guess the name of the landmark or site.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Second Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Second Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) creates and uses timelines.
2. (A) locates information using both primary and secondary sources.
3.(A) uses information to understand cause and effect.
4. (A) compares and contrasts to draw conclusions.
5. (A) uses research skills (e.g., discusses ideas; formulates broad
and specific questions; finds and selects information with help;
records, organizes and shares information).
Second Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create and use personal and historical timelines. Make a human
timeline--study a historical topic, and write an important fact about the
topic on a sheet of paper (total of 5-7 facts). Give the facts to a small
group of students, and have them arrange themselves in order along
a timeline.(1)
 Retell historical stories using primary and secondary sources: maps,
photos, oral histories, newspapers, letters, etc. (2)
 Select contributions made by past and present leaders and have
students describe what was the cause of a contribution and what was
the effect of the contribution. (3)
 Write a concluding statement showing a comparison. (4)
 Develop a research project on a topic students have been studying;
help students develop a question about the topic and assist students
in gathering, organizing, and recording details (in their own words)
that will answer the question. (5)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B4I1
3.  H6B4I1
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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Civics-Government
Third Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the purpose of rules and laws and why they are
important in a community.
2. (K) explains the necessity of rules in order to provide public safety
in a free and orderly society.
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 List rules found in the community: speed zones, traffic lights, no
littering, etc. Discuss what happens when people are caught
breaking the rules. (1, 2)
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Civics-Government
Third Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) understands that civic values are influenced by people’s beliefs
and needs (e.g., need for safety, health, and well-being).
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Invite a government service provider to visit the class and explain
how their work benefits citizens. (1)
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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Civics-Government
Third Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
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Civics-Government
Third Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes that citizenship has rights, privileges, and civic
responsibilities (e.g., community service, voting, treating others with
respect).
2. (K) understands the importance of communicating ideas to
community leaders (e.g., expressing the need for a new city park,
expressing concern over a landfill, requesting recycling programs).
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Write a letter to the city or county commissioner expressing an
individual or whole-class view on an upcoming community project or
an idea for a new project. (1, 2)
 Plan to participate in Kids Voting Kansas. (1, 2).
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Privileges - a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Third Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
The student:
1. (K) defines government as people or groups who make, apply, and
enforce rules and laws for others within a family, school, or
community.
2. (K) identifies people or groups who make, apply, and enforce rules
or laws within a family, school, or community (e.g., parent/guardian,
police, mayor, governor, president).
Teacher Notes:
 Develop a class file of newspaper articles concerning local
government. Mid-year, use file to summarize the various activities of
local government and identify the leaders involved and the people or
groups that would benefit from local government actions. (1, 2)
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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Economics
Third Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) knows that there are not enough available resources to satisfy
all wants for goods and services.
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create a mini-community in the classroom. Decide what goods and
services are most important to a community. Make a list and assign
jobs. Explain why his/her job is important to the community. Explain
how his/her job helps meet the community’s needs. (1) See also: CGB2I1, C-GB5I2&3
 Create a scenario of limited resources. Set up 5 glasses of water in
front of the class for only 5 people. Pose question: How should we
determine who will get a glass of water? Brainstorm ideas in small
discussion groups (first come, first served, lottery, money, contest,
etc.). (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Economics
Third Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) identifies and gives examples of markets that occur when
buyers and sellers exchange goods and services in the community.
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Make a list of businesses, stores or services in the community.
Discuss what goods and/or services are exchanged. (1) See also:
C-GB2I1, C-GB5I1, GB1I6, GB5I1&2, HB2I1
1.  H5B2I3
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
Third Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1 (K) - ($) knows that when borrowing money the consumer is
receiving credit that must be repaid.
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Lend each student an item (pencil) and collect an item as collateral
(shoe) from the student. When the item borrowed is returned, the
collateral is returned. (1) See also: C-GB1I2
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Credit - an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
Lending - to give for temporary use on condition that the same or its equivalent will be returned.
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Economics
Third Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) - ($) lists goods and services in the community that are paid for
by taxes (e.g., roads, parks, schools, fire protection).
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Prepare cards that say “Paid for by taxes” on it. Tour the school
grounds and decide which items in and around the school ground
are paid for with taxes (examples: playground equipment, roads,
building, desks, parking lots, teacher, custodian, etc ). Tape the
“Paid for by Taxes” sign on the object/person and list the items on a
piece of paper. Return to the classroom and make a combined list of
the items that were found. Go back over the class list and identify
each item as a good or service by writing the correct word (good or
service) next to it. Perform a service by removing all of the cards
and returning them to the classroom. (1) See also: C-GB2I1, CGB4I1
 Find several photos/pictures that have goods and services paid by
taxes. Identify which pictures are goods and which are services
(roads, police, firemen, parks, traffic lights). (1) See also: C-GB2I1,
C-GB4I1, C-GB5I3
Teacher Notes:
1.  E6B1I1, E5B5I1, H5B3I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
Third Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) - ($) analyzes how needs and wants are met through spending
and saving decisions.
2.(K) - ($) identifies consequences of borrowing and lending.
3.(A) - ($) gives an example of income and how the money was spent
or saved.
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Provide problems such as: Jimmy earns $1.00 per week by doing
chores. How long would he have to save money in order to buy a
pair of skates for $10.00? (1, 3)
 Write and illustrate a short story about a time something was
borrowed and a time something was loaned. (2)
 Discuss ways money can received: allowances, gifts, chores;
discuss ways they have spent that money. Make a class list.
(1, 2, 3)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E5B5I1
2.  E5B5I1
3.  E5B5I1
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Lending - to give for temporary use on condition that the same or its equivalent will be returned.
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Geography
Third Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) applies geographic tools, including grid systems, symbols,
legends, scales and a compass rose to construct and interpret
maps.
2. (A) uses a data source as a tool (e.g., graphs, charts, tables).
3.(A) identifies and gives examples of the difference between political
and physical features on a map.
4.(K) locates the oceans and continents (e.g., Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic,
and Indian Ocean; North America, South America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Africa, Antarctica).
5. (A) compares characteristics of urban, suburban, and rural areas.
6.(A) discusses reasons for the particular locations in a community
are used for certain human activities (e.g., residential, commercial,
industrial, transportation, recreation, agricultural).
7.(K) locates major political features (e.g., Los Angeles, New York
City, Denver, Chicago, his/her county, his/her neighboring cities,
his/her county seat).
Teacher Notes:
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Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
Cut out simplified outlines of the continents. Fold a piece of blue
paper in half. Label the fold line as the equator. Look at the globe
as a reference and glue the continents in the relative location. Label
the four oceans and seven continents. (4)
Create collages to depict urban, suburban and rural areas. Discuss
and compare the characteristics of these areas. (5)
Provide each group with a simple, hand-drawn map that includes
various physical features (rivers, hills, forest, plains) and an
envelope with assorted cut-out symbols to represent residential,
commercial, agricultural, industrial, transportation and recreation
areas. Each group arranges these symbols on their map and
justifies their choice of locations. (6)
1.  G6B1I1
3.  G5B1I2
4.  G5B1I2
6.  E6B1I1
7.  G5B1I2
Compass rose - a drawing that shows the orientation of north, south, east, and west on a map.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Geographic tools - reference resources such as almanacs, gazetteers, geographic dictionaries, statistical abstracts and other data compilations used to provide
information about the earth’s surface.
Legend - an explanatory description or key to features on a map or chart.
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Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
Scale - relative size as shown on a map (1 inch = 100 miles).
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Geography
Third Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the spatial organization of people, places, and
environments that form regions on the Earth’s surface.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) identifies the physical characteristics of the local community
(e.g., landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, weather,
seasons).
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Complete a chart listing physical characteristics of the local
community. (1) See also: HB2I1
 Draw a sketch map of the community which includes the physical
characteristics of the area. (1) See also: HB2I1
 Conduct a survey of students to see how many live near a specified
feature: hill, lake, pond, stream, wooded area. Use the results to
make a bar graph. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B2I3, G6B4I2
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
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Geography
Third Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) compares various ecosystems in the community (e.g., locations
and characteristics of plant and animal life).
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Collect samples of components of a local ecosystem and arrange
them in a display: plants from yard, park, and schoolyard. (1)
 Illustrate a food chain by sequentially ordering pictures of a variety of
living things: fungi, insects, plants, animals. (1)
 Illustrate or make dioramas of habitats of Kansas wildlife. Map the
habitat locations: black squirrels in Marysville, gray bats in the
Pittsburg area, wild turkeys in eastern Kansas. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B1I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
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Geography
Third Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) examines how people in their community interact with people in
other communities in Kansas.
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 On a map of local and surrounding communities, point out where
communities are and explain why people travel between
communities: jobs, shopping, sporting events, county fairs. (1) See
also: HB2I1
 Have group discussions about what life in the community would be
like if transportation or communication between communities were
prohibited for three days. (1)
 Develop a list of places shown on local television or newspaper
articles to demonstrate how the community depends upon the media
for information. (1)
 Classify the types of communication and transportation which permit
places to be linked together. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B4I2
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Geography
Third Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) discusses the consequences of human modifications in their
community on the environment over time (e.g., flood control, mining,
farming, chemical uses, community development, transportation).
2.(K) identifies ways in which human activities are impacted by the
physical environment (e.g., types of housing, agricultural activities,
fuel consumption, clothing, recreation, jobs, resource availability).
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 List examples in changes of land use in the local community:
changing from open land to farm land or housing area. Explore
possible consequences of these human modifications. (1) See also:
C-GB4I2, HB2I2, HB4I2, HB4I4
1.  G6B4I2
2.  E6B1I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Consumption - the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Third Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the significances of important individuals and major developments in history.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) researches the contributions of historical and current day
individuals significant in his/her community.
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create a school hall of fame, recognizing individuals who have made
contributions to the community. (1)
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Third Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the importance of the experiences of groups of people who have contributed
to the richness of our heritage.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) compares life in his/her community with another community.
(e.g., population/location, jobs, customs, history, natural resources,
ethnic groups, local government).
2.(A) retells the history of the community using local documents or
artifacts.
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast your community with
another community. (1)
 Visit a local historical society/museum or public library; ask to view
primary source documents, such as letters and diaries that were
written by early settlers to your community. (2)
1.  G6B4I2, G6B2I3
2.  H5B4I1
Artifacts - objects that were used by people long ago.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Ethnic group - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Third Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, and symbols that are
important to Kansas, United States and World history.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains customs related to holidays and ceremonies celebrated
by specific cultural groups in Kansas (e.g., Christmas, Cinco de
Mayo, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Lunar New Year, Ramadan, St. Lucia,
St. Patrick’s Day).
2. (K) locates and explains the importance of landmarks and historical
sites within the local community or his/her region of Kansas.
3. (A) describes various cultures by studying dance, music, folklore,
and arts of ethnic groups within his/her community or region of
Kansas.
Teacher Notes:
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Make a pamphlet/brochure describing the customs related to
different Kansas cultural holidays and ceremonies. (1)
 Make a picture book of important landmarks and historical sites
within your community or state. (2)
 Attend a local cultural dance or music performance; write a letter to
the group telling what was learned about their culture from that
presentation. (3)
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Ethnic group - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
Folklore - the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, passed from person to person orally.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Third Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Third Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) creates and uses timelines to illustrate a community’s history.
2. (A) locates information about communities from a variety of
sources.
3. (A) uses information to frame important historical questions.
4.(A) observes and draws conclusions in his/her own words.
5. (A) identifies and compares information from primary and
secondary sources.
6. (A) uses research skills (e.g., selects relevant information,
organizes and shares information in his/her own words, discusses
ideas, formulates broad and specific questions at both the
knowledge and comprehension level, with help knows there are
different formats of information, and records information).
Third Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create and use personal and historical timelines; make a human
timeline – study an historical topic, write an important fact about the
topic on a sheet of paper (total of 5-7 facts), give the facts to a small
group of students and have them arrange themselves in order along
a timeline. (1)
 Retell historical stories about the community using a variety of
sources: maps, photos, oral histories, newspapers, and letters. (2)
 Research a past community problem. How did the people go about
trying to find ways to solve the problem? What did they finally decide
to do? (3)
 Summarize information in a conclusion using own words. (4)
 Explain why a source is either primary or secondary. (5)
 Develop a research project on a topic under current study. Develop
a question about the topic. Gather, organize, and record details in
own words that will answer the question. (6)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B4I1
4.  H6B4I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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Civics-Government
Fourth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) evaluates rules and laws using two basic criteria: the law or rule
serves the common good, the law or rule must be possible to
follow.
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Discuss why some schools and or family rules are easy to follow and
others are hard. (1)
 Make up a new class rule to evaluate with the basic criteria: “Starting
today, everyone must eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for
lunch.” Then ask students, “If this were a rule, would it serve the
common good?” Hold discussion on the positive effects of the rule:
everyone would be getting to eat lunch, no one would be left out,
fairness—everyone would be eating the same thing. Then ask,
“Could everyone follow this rule?” Hold discussion on the negative
effects: what if someone was allergic to peanut butter? What if not
everyone liked jelly? After discussion, ask, “Would this be a good
rule then?” Students should see that it would not be a good rule,
since it would be impossible for those with allergies to follow.
Compare this rule to a real law: wearing seatbelts and evaluate using
the basic criteria. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Common good - for the benefit or interest of a politically organized society as a whole.
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Civics-Government
Fourth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) defines shared ideals across regions in the United States (e.g.,
the right to vote, freedom of religion and speech, concern for
general welfare, consent of the governed).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Look at a map of the United States. Brainstorm and list activities that
people might do in other states or regions that might differ from
activities people choose to do in Kansas or the Midwest. (i.e. surfing
on the coast vs. rodeo in the Midwest). Then stress that although
Americans have regional differences, there are common national
ideals that everyone shares. Brainstorm and create a Venn diagram
of shared ideals across the United States. (1)
Teacher Notes:
General welfare - good of society as a whole; common or public good.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
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Civics-Government
Fourth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes the United States Constitution as the document that
defines the rights and responsibilities of citizens in the United
States.
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Look at a replica of the Constitution and explain how that it is a
primary source. Divide class into two groups: rights and
responsibilities. Have each group read segments of the primary
source and find evidence of rights and responsibilities within the
Constitution. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Fourth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) determines how people can participate in government and why it
is important (e.g., jury duty, voting, running for office, community
service).
2. (K) recognizes how individuals have a civic responsibility for
meeting the needs of communities (e.g., responding to disasters
with donations and volunteering, recycling).
Teacher Notes:
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Take a survey of 10 people and ask them ways they have
participated in the government within the last year. (1)
 Invite a volunteer from a community organization to speak to the
class. (2)
 Organize a volunteer effort for the class by vote: recycling, library
book donation. (2)
1.  C6B4I1
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
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Fourth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes the function of state governments (e.g., establish law
for the state, provide public service, provide public safety).
2.(K) defines capital as the location of state and national government.
3. (K) defines capitol as the building in which government is located.
Teacher Notes:
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 List a state service which directly helps students: schools, health
department, roads, police. (1)
 Have students locate the state and national capitals on a map and
draw a picture of the capitols. (2, 3)
2.  G5B1I2
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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Economics
Fourth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) - ($) knows that every spending and saving decision has an
opportunity cost.
2. (A) identifies examples of how natural, capital, and human
resources are used in production of goods and services (e.g., land
resources [natural] are used to produce wheat [goods] that is
harvested by skilled farmers [human] using combines [capital]).
3.(A) traces the production, distribution, and consumption of a
particular good in the state or region.
4. (A) gives an example of economic specialization that leads to trade
between regions of the United States (e.g., Kansas produces wheat
and beef and trades with other regions, Michigan produces
automobiles, the Southeast produces rice, the Northwest produces
paper).
Teacher Notes:
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Plan a trip out West. From a given list of eight supplies, with their
prices, select only four being only allowed $10.00. Ask students
what their opportunity cost was in selecting the four items. (1)
 Use a graphic organizer to list resources under their correct heading
(i.e., natural, capital, human). Create a web of Factors of Production:
natural resources, capital resources, human resource. (2)
 Create a comic strip that traces a product from Kansas or the region
from its beginnings to the consumer: wheat, aircraft. (2, 3)
 Have students work as a group to dramatize trade of two products:
fruit, wheat; lumber, coal; fish, beef. (4) See also: HB4I4
1.  E5B5I1
3.  E5B2I2
Capital goods, capital resources - special goods such as tools, equipment, machines, and buildings which are used to produce other goods and services.
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Consumption - the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Human resource - people who work in jobs to produce goods and services.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Opportunity cost - in making a decision, the most valuable alternative not chosen.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Specialization - people who work in jobs where they produce a few special goods and services.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
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Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Economics
Fourth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) defines the characteristics of an entrepreneur and gives an
example of someone who shows those characteristics (e.g., risk
taker, innovator, gets together all resources needed to produce a
product).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Start a class business such as a cookie factory, a class store with
supplies, or a student newspaper. (1)
 Bring in a guest speaker who is an entrepreneur. (1) See also:
HB2I1, HB3I1&2
 Entrepreneur puzzle: Give each a prepared sheet of paper with the
characteristics of an entrepreneur written on one side (the teacher
may make puzzle lines around each characteristic or allow the
students to make their own). On the backside of the characteristic
list, illustrate an entrepreneur utilizing or showing one of the
characteristics (example: a shop owner opening his new store, a
new product being made, etc). When the illustration is completed,
cut the picture to make a puzzle. Exchange puzzles to put together.
(1) See also: HB2I1, HB3I2, HB4I5
Teacher Notes:
Entrepreneur - a person who organizes productive resources to take the risk to start a business.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Economics
Fourth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) defines market economy as an economic system in which
buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and
distribution, based on supply and demand.
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 List natural resources found abundant in Kansas (wheat). What new
business can be started based on the supply of wheat? What wheatbased product should the business produce (bread, cookies,
tortillas)? Who would buy these products? Are there many other
businesses already making these products? Could the company
create a new and unique wheat product that could spark a high
demand (cookie with school’s logo)? (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E5B2I2
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Economic system - establishes how a country produces and distributes goods and services.
Market economy - a system in which buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and distribution, based on supply and demand.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
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Economics
Fourth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
Teacher Notes:
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Economics
Fourth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) - ($) discusses ways workers can improve their ability to earn
income by gaining new knowledge, skills, and experience.
2.(A) analyzes the costs and benefits of making a choice.
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Hold a career fair or invite members of the community to speak to
the class about the skills and education required for their
occupations. (1)
 Pose scenario for the weekend: Doing a chore to earn allowance or
going to a movie. What would be the cost for going to the movie (not
earning the money for the chore)? What would be the benefit of
going to the movie (having fun, seeing a favorite movie star)? Pose
same questions for doing the chore. (2)
Teacher Notes:
1.  E5B5I1
2.  E5B5I1
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
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Geography
Fourth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) applies geographic tools, including grid systems, symbols,
legends, scales, and a compass rose to construct and interpret
maps.
2. (A) uses a data source as a tool (e.g., graphs, charts, tables).
3.(A) identifies and give examples of the difference between political
and physical features within a region.
4.(K) identifies major landforms and bodies of water in regions of the
United States (e.g., mountains, plains, islands, peninsulas, rivers,
oceans).
5.(K) locates major physical and political features of regions from
memory (e.g., Appalachian Mountains, the Great Lakes, 50 States,
Kansas River, Arkansas River, Atlanta, Grand Canyon, Gulf of
California, Mt. McKinley, Puerto Rico, Prime Meridian, International
Dateline, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, San Francisco, Dallas,
Phoenix, Seattle, Everglades, Yellowstone National Park, Niagara
Falls, Mississippi River).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Read a narrative and then create a sketch map to illustrate the
setting of the narrative. The sketch map can be drawn on a grid for
practice with grids. (1)
 Use a map grid to determine the absolute location of places chosen
by the teacher and students. (1)
 Construct maps, diagrams, or charts to display spatial information
(e.g., construct a bar graph that compares populations of the five
largest cities in the state or the United States). (2)
 Design a map that displays information selected by the students,
using symbols explained in a key. (1, 4)
 Survey where various items in the classroom were manufactured in
the United States. Generate a graph or map of survey results. Write
a brief account suggesting reasons for the patterns observed.
 Mark major landforms on a map. (1, 4) See also EB1I3, EB1I4
 Locate places studied through classroom magazines, current events
and/or literature on maps. Develop a thematic map showing the
location of literature read throughout the year. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B1I1
3.  G5B1I2
4.  G5B1I2
5.  G5B1I2
Absolute location - the location of a point expressed by a grid reference (latitude and longitude).
Compass rose - a drawing that shows the orientation of north, south, east, and west on a map.
Geographic tools - reference resources such as almanacs, gazetteers, geographic dictionaries, statistical abstracts and other data compilations used to provide
information about the earth’s surface.
Legend - an explanatory description or key to features on a map or chart.
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Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Spatial - pertaining to space on the earth’s surface.
Scale - relative size as shown on a map (1 inch = 100 miles).
Thematic map - a map representing a specific theme, topic, or spatial distribution (cattle production, climates).
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Geography
Fourth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) identifies and compares the physical characteristics of eastern
to western Kansas and regions of the United States (e.g., rainfall,
location, land and water features, climate, vegetation, natural
resources).
2. (K) identifies the human characteristics of Kansas and regions of
the United States (e.g., people, religions, languages, customs,
economic activities, housing, foods).
Teacher Notes:
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use rainfall maps of Kansas to compare rainfall amounts in Eastern
Kansas and Western Kansas. Discuss why these rainfall amounts
vary. (1)
 Label land and water features on Kansas maps. (1)
 Make ongoing charts related to human characteristics as Kansas
and the regions of the United States are studied. (2)
 Use maps to identify and compare vegetation and resources with
what is produced in Kansas and the United States. (1, 2)
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Geography
Fourth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies and describes the physical components of Earth’s
atmosphere, land, water, biomes (e.g., temperature, precipitation,
wind, climate, mountains, plains, islands, oceans, lakes, rivers,
aquifers, plants, animals, habitats).
2. (A) explains features and patterns of Earth’s surface in terms of
physical processes (e.g., weathering, erosion, water cycle, soil
formation, mountain building).
3. (A) explains the functions and relationships of ecosystems in
Kansas and across the United States (e.g., food chains, water, link
between flora and fauna and the environment).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use pictures from instructional materials and hand-drawn sketches
to distinguish between different landforms. (1)
 Construct and analyze climate graphs for selected places and
suggest reasons for similarities and differences in climates. (1)
 Describe the physical environment of the students’ own region and
the physical processes that act on it (e.g., weather, freezing and
thawing, soil building processes). (2)
 Compare and interpret maps and photographs to explain how
physical processes affect Earth’s surface (e.g., the effects of climate
and weather on vegetation, erosion and deposition on landforms,
mudslides on hills). (2)
 Use simple diagrams and/or models and conduct simple
experiments to demonstrate the role of precipitation, evaporation,
and condensation in the water cycle. (2) See also HB4I3
 Illustrate food chains of animals living in Kansas and across the
U.S. through the creation of sequentially ordered paper chains or
accordion books. (3)
 Create a diorama model of a local ecosystem. (3)
Teacher Notes:
Biome - a major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and climate.
Fauna - animal life.
Flora - plant life.
Physical process - a course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters Earth’s physical systems (e.g., glaciation, erosion, deposition).
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
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Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Geography
Fourth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(K) describes the types and characteristics of political units (e.g.,
city, county, state, country).
2. (K) identifies conditions that determine the location of human
activities (e.g., resources, population, transportation, and
technology).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use layers of transparencies to identify political units at different
scales: city, county, state, country. (1)
 Make a flip book identifying the student’s city, county, state, and
country. (1)
 Study a map of the United States showing population distributions
and densities, and then write an account suggesting differences in
distribution and density related to location. (2)
 Discuss local or regional examples of conflicts related to resources
or boundaries (e.g., issues related to school district boundaries, city
limit changes, water issues in Western Kansas). (2) See also:
HB4I4, HB4I5
 Use the yellow pages and local maps to determine the locations of
human activity. (2)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H6B2I1, H6B2I4
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Population distribution - location patterns of various populations.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Geography
Fourth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interaction between
human and physical systems.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) examines natural resource challenges and ways people have
developed solutions as they use renewable and nonrenewable
resources (e.g., lack of water, eroding soil, lack of land, limitations
of fossil fuels).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Prepare an illustrated booklet that shows how and why people alter
the physical environment: creating irrigation projects, clearing the
land to make room for shopping centers, planting crops and building
roads. (1)
 Make a chart categorizing resources as renewable or nonrenewable.
Justify the categories chosen. (1)
 Use photographs to explain how cities develop around natural
resources. (1)
Teacher Notes:
1.  G6B4I2
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Renewable resource - a resource that can be regenerated.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fourth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the significance of important individuals and major developments in history.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) researches the contributions made by notable Kansans in
history (e.g., Dwight David Eisenhower, Alf Landon, Amelia Earhart,
George Washington Carver, Robert Dole, William Allen White,
Langston Hughes, Carry A. Nation, Black Bear Bosin, Gordon
Parks, Clyde Cessna, Charles Curtis, Walter Chrysler, Wyatt Earp).
2. (K) uses traditional stories from regions of the United States to help
define the region.
3.(K) describes the observations of the explorers who came to what
was to become Kansas (e.g., Francisco Coronado, Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark, Zebulon Pike, Stephen H. Long).
4. (K) describes how communication and transportation systems
connect Kansas to other regions, past and present (e.g., trails,
Pony Express, telegraph, steamboats, railroad lines, highway
systems, air transportation, Internet).
5. (A) compares and contrasts the purposes of the Santa Fe and
Oregon-California Trails (e.g., commercial vs. migration).
6. (K) describes life on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails
(e.g., interactions between different cultural groups, hardships such
as lack of water, mountains and rivers to cross, weather, need for
medical care, size of wagon).
Teacher Notes:
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Develop trading cards by drawing a picture of a notable Kansan on
one side and writing a list of his/her accomplishments on the other.
(1)
 Read traditional regional stories, about such characters as Pecos
Bill, Paul Bunyan, etc., to show how these folktales describe the
region in which the characters lived. (2)
 Describe experiences of explorers who came to Kansas before
statehood through role playing, drawing maps with journal entries,
etc. (3)
 Compare and contrast ways people have communicated with one
another and traveled to, from and within Kansas. (4)
 Draw a Venn diagram showing similarities and differences between
the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails. (5)
 Make a list of major hardships encountered by travelers on one of
the historic trails; make a list of items a wagon would need for a
successful journey, explaining choice. (6)
1.  C5B2I4
3.  H5B1I3
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fourth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the importance of experiences of groups of people who have contributed to
the richness of heritage.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) compares the various reasons several immigrant groups settled
in Kansas (e.g., English, German, German-Russian, French,
Swedish, Czechoslovakian, Croatian, Serbian, Mexican, African
American, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian).
2.(K) explains the economic and cultural contributions made by
immigrant groups in Kansas (e.g., jobs, agriculture, mining, arts,
customs, celebrations).
Teacher Notes:
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use text or other secondary sources to construct a table that
summarizes geographic, political, economic, and religious reasons
that brought immigrant groups to Kansas. (1)
 Research the immigrant groups who settled in Kansas emphasizing
their economic and cultural contributions. (2)
1.  G6B4I2
2.  H5B2I3
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fourth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, and symbols that are
important to Kansas, United States and World history.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the origin of the name “Kansas.”
2. (K) describes the history of the Kansas state song, “Home on the
Range.”
Teacher Notes:
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 Make a book describing the history of Kansas using the state song
“Home on the Range.” (2)
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fourth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Fourth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.(A) creates and uses historical timelines (e.g., time periods, eras,
decades, centuries).
2.(A) develops a thesis statement around a historical question.
3.(K) understands the difference between inferred information and
observed information.
4.(A) identifies and compares information from primary and secondary
sources (e.g., photographs, diaries/journals, newspapers, historical
maps).
5.(A) uses research skills to interpret an historical person or event in
history and notes the source(s) of information (e.g., discusses
ideas; formulates broad and specific questions; determines a variety
of sources; locates, evaluates, organizes, records and shares
relevant information in both oral and written form).
Fourth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create and use personal and historical timelines. Make a human
timeline – study a historical topic, and write an important fact about
the topic on a sheet of paper (total of 5-7 facts). Give the facts to a
small group of students and have them arrange themselves in order
along a timeline. (1)
 Question example: “Which trail (Santa Fe or Oregon-California)
achieved better goals for the people at the end of travel?” Thesis
statement examples : “The Santa Fe Trail achieved better goals for
the people at the end of travel.” or “The Oregon-California Trail
achieved better goals for the people at the end of travel.” (2)
 Explain why a source is either primary or secondary; find information
from different sources and judge whether the information is the same
or different. (4)
 Develop an interpretive research project on an historical person or
event in history students have been studying; develop a question
about the topic using a variety of sources, and locate, evaluate,
organize, and record details (in their own words) that will answer the
question. (5)
Teacher Notes:
1.  H5B4I1
2.  H6B4I1
3.  H6B4I1
4.  H6B4I1
5.  H5B4I1
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Inferred information - ability to analyze and interpret different historical perspectives to see how the events influenced people’s behavior.
Observed information - ability to understand historical narratives and describe historical experiences
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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Civics-Government
Fifth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1: The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) understands laws must be followed by those in authority as well
as those who are governed (limited government).
2. (K) defines the rule of law as a legal principle that is easily
understood, and can be applied to all, including those who are rule
makers.
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Keep a journal of their daily routines documenting all the ways
government impacts daily life. (1)
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Rule of law - principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law.
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Civics-Government
Fifth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes the principles contained in the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of the United States including
the Bill of Rights (e.g., right to question the government, having a
voice in government through representation).
2. (K) compares how the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Articles
of Confederation and other similar documents influenced the
development of American constitutional government.
3. (A) explains the basic ideals of the American republican system
(e.g., liberty, justice, equality of opportunity, human dignity).
4.▲(K) identifies important founding fathers and their contributions
(e.g., George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams,
John Adams).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use replicas of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
as a primary source. Have students spend time looking and reading
both documents. Write numerous sentence strips containing parts of
each document. Have students place sentence strips under each
document label. (1, 2)
 Create a collage representing basic ideals. (3)
 Research and role-play a founding father. (4)
Articles of Confederation - first constitution of the United States, 1781; created a weak national government, replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United
States.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Magna Carta - document signed by King John of England in 1215 A.D. that guaranteed certain basic rights; considered the beginning of constitutional government
in England.
Mayflower Compact - document drawn up by the Pilgrims in 1620 while on the Mayflower before landing at Plymouth Rock; the Compact provided a legal basis for
self-government.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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Civics-Government
Fifth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) defines federalism as a system of government in which power
is divided between national (central) and state governments as a
way to distribute power by preventing a concentration of power.
2. (K) defines the separation of power and gives examples of how
power is limited (e.g., the President can nominate a Supreme Court
Justice, but Congress has to approve).
3. (K) describes how the United States Constitution supports the
principle of majority rule, but also protects the rights of the minority.
4.▲(A) explains the functions of the three branches of federal
government (e.g., legislative-makes laws, executive-enforces laws,
judicial-interprets laws).
5. (K) identifies the key ideas of the Preamble.
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Use an analogy to teach federalism. Compare the division of power
between state and national governments to that of a family. Adult
guardians in a family are responsible for the protection and integrity
of the family unit. However, each family member is autonomous in
some respects. For example, the adults decide where the family will
live, but each child gets to arrange or decorate their room. (1, 2)
Vote on a recess activity, given three choices: board games, soccer,
or dancing. Explain that the class will participate in the activity with
the most votes, which is the power of majority rule. Announce that
students who did not vote in the majority will not get to participate in
recess at all. Ask, “Is that fair?” After responses, explain that even
though they may be in the minority, they have rights and will be
allotted the same recess time. (3)
Use a three-column organizer for students to place information
regarding each branch. Have information organized by functions of
each branch, requirements to hold office in each branch, and
constitutional powers of each branch. Use the Constitution as a
primary source to obtain information for the chart. Use a tricycle
analogy to explain the three branches of government. Each wheel
represents a branch. The tricycle can not operate properly if missing
a wheel and by working together, the tricycle can move forward.
(2, 4).
Teacher Notes:
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Constitutional powers - (See expressed powers)
Federalism - a policy favoring strong centralized federal (central government) power. Power of government is divided between national and state governments.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Fifth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) understands that rights are personal, political and economic
(e.g., personal: privacy, speech, religion; political: holding public
office, voting; economic: employment, owning property, copyrights
and patents).
2. (K) understands that privileges require qualifications (e.g., driving:
pass exam, age requirement; running for office: age requirement,
must be a United States citizen, residency).
3. (K) Recognizes that rights require responsibilities of citizenship
(e.g., paying taxes, jury duty, military service, voting, obeying the
law, public service).
4. (K) examines the steps necessary to become an informed voter
(e.g., voter registration, recognizes issues and candidates, personal
choice, and voting).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Draw posters to illustrate various rights and responsibilities to display
on a bulletin board. (1)
 Use a three-column organizer listing: rights, privileges and
responsibilities. Pose situations or events and ask students to
categorize. (1, 2, 3)
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Copyright - The exclusive legal rights to reproduce, publish, and sell the matter and form (as of a literary, musical, or artistic work).
Patent - a writing securing to an inventor for a term of years the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention.
Privileges - a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Fifth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
Teacher Notes:
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Economics
Fifth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains how scarcity of resources requires individuals,
communities, states, and nations to make choices about goods and
services (e.g., what food to eat, type of housing to live in, how to
use land).
2. (A) determines how unlimited wants and limited resources lead to
choices that involve opportunity costs.
3. (K) describes how specialization results in increased productivity
(e.g., when each person in a city specializes in producing one
product and then sells or trades with each other, there is more
produced than if everyone tried to make everything they need for
themselves).
4. (A) gives examples of economic interdependence at either the
local, state, regional, or national level. (e.g., Western settlers
depended on Easterners for textiles; Easterners depended on
Westerners for furs and hides).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Discuss how nomadic and sedentary tribes made choices regarding
food, shelter, and land use. Make displays showing different types of
shelter. (1, 2) See also: GB4I1-5, GB5I1&2
 Create drawings to illustrate why many American Indians had to
move their homes (choice) in order to follow their food supply. The
opportunity cost would be lack of food. (1, 2) See also: GB4I1-5,
GB5I1&2
 Make a Venn diagram of specialized jobs in a northern colony versus
specialized jobs in a southern colony and the similarities in the
center. Discuss the differences that occurred. (3) See also: GB2I1&2
 Make a map of the colonies and show the products produced in each
of the colonial regions. Draw lines to connect the products that are
traded between regions. (1, 3, 4) See also: GB1I2&3, GB2I1&2
Economic interdependence - mutually dependent on each other financially.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Opportunity cost - in making a decision, the most valuable alternative not chosen.
Productivity - a measure of goods and services produced over a period of time with a given set of resources.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Scarcity - not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Specialization - people who work in jobs where they produce a few special goods and services.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Economics
Fifth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) defines supply as the quantity of resources, goods, or services
that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time and demand
as the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or
service at a given price.
2.▲(K) identifies factors that change supply or demand for a product
(e.g., supply: technology changes; demand: invention of new and
substitute goods; supply or demand: climate and weather).
3. (K) describes how changes in supply and demand affect prices of
specific products.
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Using the colonial colonies (New England, Middle, Southern) as an
example, identify the demand for labor in the production of
agricultural products and how the supply of that labor affected the
type of crop produced. Write a short story as a landowner in either
the New England, Middle, or Southern colony, with a product to sell.
In the stories, explain how labor costs influenced the product
produced, how new technologies were used to increase supply, and
how substitute goods and climate conditions affected choices.
(1, 2, 3) See also: GB2I2, GB4I1-5, GB5I2, HB2I3
 Make a cause and effect chart showing how weather can affect both
the supply and demand for a particular agricultural product and
hypothesize how price of that product would also be affected. (2, 3)
Teacher Notes:
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Economics
Fifth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) understands that banks are institutions where people
(individuals, families, and businesses) save money and earn
interest and where people borrow money and pay interest.
2. (A) - ($) gives examples of how positive and negative incentives
affect people’s behavior (e.g., laws: Stamp Act, Sugar Act; profit;
product price; indentured servant).
3. (K) recognizes barriers to trade among people across nations (e.g.,
quotas, tariffs, boycotts, geography).
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Invite a banker into the classroom to talk with the students about
banks and/or take a field trip to a bank. (1)
 Assume the role of a newspaper reporter. Write questions you
would ask if you had a chance to interview an indentured servant.
Research to find the answers to your questions and report your
findings in a newspaper article. Make sure the questions asked are
geared toward positive and negative incentives. (2) See also: HB2I5,
HB4I2
 Write a letter to the King explaining the barriers to trade one would
experience if living in an English, French, or Spanish colony. (2, 3)
See also: C-GB5I1, HB3I13
Teacher Notes:
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Incentives - something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, which induces action or motivates effort.
Interest - a charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Profit - after producing and selling a good or service, profit is the difference between revenue and cost of production. If costs are greater than revenue, profit is
negative (there is a loss).
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Economics
Fifth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) describes revenue sources for different levels of
government (e.g., personal income taxes, property taxes, sales tax,
interest, bonds).
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Plan a field trip to the county treasurer’s office or invite them in as a
guest speaker. (1) See also: HB3I1
 Design a chart illustrating the different government revenue sources:
income taxes, property taxes, sales tax, interest, bonds. The chart
should include vocabulary for different revenues, a short definition,
and some type of example that demonstrates the term: buying a pair
of jeans, the consumer pays a sales tax. That tax goes to the state.
The state government uses that money to pay for
. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Interest - a charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned.
Revenue - receipts from sales of goods and services.
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Economics
Fifth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) - ($) determines the costs and benefits of a spending, saving, or
borrowing decision.
2. (K) - ($) recognizes that supply of and demand for workers in
various careers affect income.
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Make a chart and list the benefits (pros) and costs (cons) of a
spending decision. (1)
 Choose a career to research. Find the number of people currently in
the occupation and the number of people needed now and in the
future. Predict how the supply and demand of workers affects
salaries: nursing, technology careers, construction. (2)
Teacher Notes:
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Geography
Fifth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) explains and uses map titles, symbols, cardinal directions and
intermediate directions, legends, latitude and longitude.
2.▲(K) locates major physical and political features of Earth from
memory (e.g., ▲Boston, ▲Philadelphia, ▲England, ▲France,
▲Italy, ▲Spain, ▲North America, ▲Atlantic Ocean, ▲Pacific
Ocean, Yucatan Peninsula, Germany, Aleutian Islands, Bering
Strait, Chesapeake Bay, Hudson Bay, Mexico City, Montreal,
Netherlands, Norway, Ohio River, Portugal, Quebec City, St.
Lawrence River).
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a ceiling grid for practice with latitude and longitude. Use data
and a variety of symbols and colors to create thematic maps. (1) See
also: HB2I2
 Prepare a sketch map to indicate approximate locations of places,
both local and global, featured in newspaper or television stories or
places studied. (1, 2)
 Let students use a hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) while
walking indoors and outdoors to see how latitude and longitude
coordinates vary as one moves to a different spot. The students can
record their positions at six different points and the corresponding
coordinates. (1) See also: HB2I2
Teacher Notes:
Latitude - a measure of distance, north or south from the equator, expressed in degrees.
Legend - an explanatory description or key to features on a map or chart.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Longitude - a measure of distance, east or west from the Prime Meridian, expressed in degrees.
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Political features - spatial expressions of political behavior; boundaries on land, water, and air space; cities, towns, counties, countries.
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Geography
Fifth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies and compares the major physical characteristics of
New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies
and French and Spanish territories (e.g., location, climate, and
resources).
2. (K) identifies and compares the human characteristics of the New
England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies and
French and Spanish territories (e.g., national origins, religion,
customs, government, agriculture, industry, and architecture).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Research to learn cultural traditions, religious agriculture, industry
and architecture. After researching regions, students will illustrate a
U.S. map to show characteristics. (2) See also: HB1I2, HB4I1, HB4I6
 Construct a diorama for each area showing physical characteristics.
(1) See also: HB2I2, HB2I4
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Geography
Fifth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies renewable and nonrenewable resources and their
uses (e.g., fossil fuels, minerals, fertile soil, water power, forests,
solar and wind power).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a three circle Venn diagram to show the renewable resources
for three areas in the Colonial period. Repeat this activity for
nonrenewable resources. (1) See also: EB1I1, EB1I2, EB1I4,
HB1I1, HB1I2, HB1I3
Renewable resource - a resource that can be regenerated.
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Geography
Fifth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) explains reasons for variation in population distribution (e.g.,
environment, migration, government policies).
2. (A) identifies the push-pull factors (causes) of human migration
(e.g., push: war, famine, lack of economic opportunity; pull:
religious freedom, economic opportunity, joining family or friends).
3. (K) describes the effects of human migration on place and
population (e.g., population shifts, conflict, acculturation; diffusion of
ideas, diseases, crops and culture).
4. (K) describes factors that influence and change the location and
distribution of economic activities (e.g., resources, technology,
transportation and government).
5. (A) understands that forces of conflict and cooperation divide or
unite people (e.g., land disputes, religious intolerance, taxation).
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Design a poster advertising reasons emigrants should come to the
American colonies. (2) See also: HB2I7, HB4I1, HB4I2, HB4I3,
HB4I5, HB4I6
Write dialogue of two brothers/sisters in England trying to decide
whether or not to emigrate to the American colonies. (2) See also:
HB2I3, HB2I7, HB4I3, HB4I4, HB4I5, HB4I6
Create maps of U.S. and world to show different foods and their
origins. (3) See also: EB1I3, EB1I4
Play International Tag: Check shirts, shoes, backpacks to determine
where these are produced. List and tally locations. Why are these
not made locally? Then research goods used by colonist. Which
were made in the colonies and in Europe and why? (4) See also:
EB1I4
Write two newspaper accounts of the Boston Massacre or Boston
Tea Party. After viewing a primary or secondary source and
researching it, write one account from the American view and one
from the British view. (5) See also: HB3I1, HB4I3, HB4I4, HB4I6
Study a map showing population distribution during colonial period
and write an account of how differences are related to location. (1)
See also: HB2I2, HB2I4, HB4I1
Cook using recipes representative of that time period. (3)
Teacher Notes:
Acculturation - the process of adopting the traits of a cultural group.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Diffusion - the spread of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Emigrant - a person (migrating away from) leaving a country or area to settle in another.
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Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Population distribution - location patterns of various populations.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Push-pull factors - in migration theory, the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that drive or draw people away from their previous location, often
simultaneously.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Geography
Fifth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines varying viewpoints regarding resource use (e.g.,
American Indian vs. European settler, past vs. present).
2. (K) identifies the relationship between the acquisition and use of
natural resources and advances in technology using historical and
contemporary examples (e.g., compass for navigation, water
power, steel plow).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Complete a T chart to compare motivations for settling and exploring
North America. (1) See also: HB1I1, HB1I2, HB1I3, HB2I4, HB3I8,
HB4I1, HB4I2, HB4I4, HB4I5, HB4I5, HB4I6
 Assume a persona (e.g., American Indian, slave, European settler).
Write an editorial revealing a specific view of natural resource use or
technology of the time. (1, 2) See also: EB1I1, EB1I2, EB2I1, EB2I2,
HB1I1, HB1I2, HB1I3, HB4I1, HB4I2, HB4I3, HB4I4, HB4I6
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fifth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the age of exploration.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) explains how various American Indians adapted to their
environment in relationship to shelter and food (e.g., Plains,
Woodland, Northwest Coast, Southeast and Pueblo cultures in the
period from 1700-1820).
2. (A) shows how traditional arts and customs of various American
Indians are impacted by the environment (e.g., Plains, Woodland,
Northwest Coast, Southeast and Pueblo cultures in the period from
1700-1820).
3.▲(A) compares the motives and technology that encouraged
European exploration of the Americas (e.g., motives: trade,
expansion, wealth, discovery; technology: improved ship building,
sextant, cartography).
4. (A) examines the interaction between European explorers and
American Indians (e.g., trade, cultural exchange, disease).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create a chart with each American Indian group listed. Research
each group’s climate, vegetation, topography, shelter and food.
Discuss how climate, vegetation and topography influence shelter
and food. Use the Internet to find stories, pictures (or simulate arts
and crafts) of each American Indian group and add to chart. (1, 2)
 Use a graphic organizer to include: reasons why Spain, France,
Italy, Great Britain and the Dutch chose to explore the world, new
technological advances that aided ship exploration, and the role
technology played in the countries listed in order for them to explore
the new world. (3)
 Design a cause and effect chart to show the interaction between
explorers and Native Americans. Include the positive and negative
results of the two cultures interacting. (4)
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fifth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in colonization era of the United States (1607-1763).
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains why early settlements succeeded or failed (e.g.,
Pilgrims, Puritans, St. Augustine, Quebec).
2. (A) maps the patterns of colonial settlement (e.g., British, French,
Spain, and Indigenous populations).
3.▲(K) describes political and economic structures in the New England,
Middle, and Southern Colonies (e.g., political: House of Burgesses,
town meetings, colonial forms of representation; economics:
agriculture, trade).
4. (A) compares and contrasts the impact of European settlement
from an American Indian and European point of view.
5. (A) analyzes the causes and impact of forced servitude in North
America (e.g., indentured servant, Middle Passage, and slave life).
6. (K) explains the causes and effects of the French and Indian War
on the American Revolutionary period.
7. (K) explains the impact of religious freedom as colonies were
settled by various Christian groups (e.g., Catholics in Maryland,
Quakers in Pennsylvania, Puritans in Massachusetts). .
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create a chart with the four settlements listed on the top. List the
successes and failures of each. Propose a new settlement/city in
modern times: What would the people of a new city need today in
order to succeed? (1)
 Label a map to show where explorers sailed, claiming new land for
their country of origin. Place Native Americans on the same map.
Draw conclusions and write a brief statement about settlement
patterns. Assign class into two groups: Native Americans and
Europeans. Write brief statements about how European settlement
impacted life from perspective assigned. (2, 4)
 Create a three-column chart: New England, Middle, and Southern
Colonies. Under each region, describe political and economic
structures for comparison. Assign each student residency in one
colony. Write and exchange postcards describing economic and
political life. (3)
 Use primary and secondary sources of accounts from slaves and
indentured servants. Discuss how forced servitude impacted North
American economy. Publish a news article describing experiences.
(5)
 Brainstorm the meaning of religious freedom today. Compare it to
accounts from the Pilgrims and Puritans. Make modern day
connections to other groups struggling over religious freedoms. (7)
Teacher Notes:
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fifth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the American Revolution and the United States becoming a
nation (1763 to 1800).
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) describes the causes of the American Revolution (e.g.,
Proclamation of 1763, Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act, taxation without
representation).
2. (K) explains the significance of important groups in the American
Revolution (e.g., Loyalists, Patriots, Sons of Liberty).
3. (A) examines the significance of important turning points in the
American Revolution (e.g., Boston Massacre, Continental
Congress, Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, Saratoga,
Valley Forge, Yorktown).
4. (K) discusses the international support for the American Revolution
(e.g., French, Lafayette).
5. (K) discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of
Confederation.
6.▲(K) describes how the Constitutional Convention led to the creation
of the United States Constitution (e.g., Great Compromise, ThreeFifths Compromise).
7. (K) recognizes the importance of the presidency as it was defined
by George Washington (e.g., leadership qualities, balance of
power, setting precedent, cabinet selection, term limits).
8. (K) explains United States land policy and its impact on American
Indians (e.g., sale of western lands, Land Ordinance of 1785, the
Northwest Ordinance of 1787).
Teacher Notes:
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Create a descriptive timeline of events leading to the American
Revolutionary War. (1, 3)
Research and list the characteristics of a loyalist, patriot and a
member of the Son’s of Liberty. Assign characters for role-play and
conduct a town meeting sharing viewpoints concerning ColonialBritain relations. (1, 2, 3)
List the countries that provided support for the colonist during the
American Revolutionary War. List what was gained by both sides
through this alliance. Make connections to modern day United
States and French alliances. (4)
Develop a group definition for compromise. Develop a Venn
diagram for each compromise, placing the opposing perspectives on
the sides and the compromise in the middle. (6)
Create a now and then chart. Compare the current presidency to
Washington’s presidency, identifying the actions of the office: Does
the president still select the cabinet members? Who are they? Are
there term limits for the presidency? How many years can one hold
that office? Develop group definition of precedent. Discuss modern
precedents that have been established (line item veto). (7)
Map the impact of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest
Ordinance of 1787. Discuss how the ordinances disturbed
settlement patterns for Native Americans. (8)
Articles of Confederation - first constitution of the United States, 1781; created a weak national government, replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United
States.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Fifth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Fifth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) uses historical timelines to trace the cause and effect
relationships between events in different places during the same
time period (e.g., Colonial America and England).
2. (A) examines multiple primary sources to understand point of view
of an historical figure.
3. (A) locates information using a variety of sources to support a
thesis statement.
4. (A) uses information including primary sources to debate a problem
or an historical issue.
5. (A) observes and draws conclusions.
6. (A) uses research skills to interpret an historical person or event in
history and notes the source(s) of information (e.g., discusses
ideas; formulates broad and specific questions; determines a
variety of sources; locates, evaluates, organizes, records and
shares relevant information in both oral and written form).
Teacher Notes:
Fifth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a timeline of the major events leading up to and during the
American Revolutionary War. Next to each event, label the cause
and effect. (1)
 Use primary and secondary resources to compare points of view.
Compare Capt. Preston’s letter to King George III regarding the
Boston Massacre to Benjamin Franklin’s account in his newspaper.
(2, 3, 4)
 Research and find evidence to support the statement: The British
government had the right to tax the colonist’s following the French
and Indian War. (3, 4, 5, 6)
 Debate the charges against King George III as stated in the
Declaration of Independence approved by the Continental Congress.
(4, 5, 6)
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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Civics-Government
Sixth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
1. (K) recognizes that every civilization has a form of law or order.
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Compare the codes of Hammurabi to the school rules. (1)
 Have students research the rules and laws of ancient civilizations
and then determine the civilization they would have most enjoyed
living in based on the form of governance and citizenship
requirements. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
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Civics-Government
Sixth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
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Teacher Notes:
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Civics-Government
Sixth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
Teacher Notes:
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Civics-Government
Sixth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) compares and contrasts the rights of people living in Ancient
Greece (Sparta and Athens) and Classical Rome with the modern
United States.
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a three-column chart to record information when comparing the
three. Organize information under each title by: branches of
government, requirements of citizenship, and basic laws. Have
students use hi-lighters to color code United States government
characteristics and from which civilization, Ancient Greece or
Classical Rome, the characteristics stem from. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Sixth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) identifies the basic features of systems of government (e.g.,
republic, democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, theocracy).
2. (K) describes the ways political systems meet or fail to meet the
needs and wants of their citizens (e.g., republic, democracy,
monarchy, dictatorship oligarchy, theocracy).
3. (K) defines the characteristics of nations (e.g., territory, population,
government, sovereignty).
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Create a graphic organizer for each of the listed systems of
government (e.g., selection of officials, head(s) of government,
system for making and enforcing laws, determination/protection of
individual freedoms). (1)
 Define needs and wants. Assign a political system to small groups.
Using references as factual support have each group describe how
the assigned political system works to meet the needs and wants of
its people. (1, 2)
 Discuss why Kansas is not a nation. (3)
Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Democracy - form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative.
Dictatorship - a government system controlled by one ruler who has absolute power and usually controlled by force.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Monarchy - governed by a monarch (king, queen, emperor, empress).
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Oligarchy - a form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons.
Republic - a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed.
Sovereignty - ultimate, supreme power in a state; in the United States, sovereignty rests with the people.
Theocracy - a government ruled by religious leaders.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Economics
Sixth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) explains how scarcity of resources requires communities and
nations to make choices about goods and services (e.g., what
foods to eat, where to settle, how to use land).
2. (A) gives examples of international economic interdependence.
(e.g., Europe depended on the Far East for spices & tea; Far East
received silver and gem stones in exchange).
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Compare the Egyptians’ use of the Nile River to the Sumerians use
of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (1, 2) See also: C-GB1I1, GB2I2,
GB3I2, GB5I13
 Discuss with students how European merchants made such large
profits from the sale of Asian goods. Lead students to realize that
because Asian goods were not readily available in Europe, the only
way to get them was pay a high price. (1, 2) See also: C-GB1I1,
GB2I2
 Role play a Portuguese sailor. Write a persuasive letter to King
John I, explaining why he should pay for an ocean voyage you want
to make to Asia and why the journey would be good for the
Portuguese. (1, 2) See also: GB2I2, GB5I4, HB1I3, HB2I3, HB2I1
Teacher Notes:
Economic interdependence - mutually dependent on each other financially.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Profit - after producing and selling a good or service, profit is the difference between revenue and cost of production. If costs are greater than revenue, profit is
negative (there is a loss).
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Scarcity - not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
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Economics
Sixth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
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Economics
Sixth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes the economic conditions under which trade takes
place among nations (e.g., students recognize that trade takes
place when nations have wants or needs they cannot fulfill on their
own).
2.▲(K) identifies barriers to trade among nations (e.g., treaties, war,
transportation, geography).
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Divide the class into two “nations.” Ask each group to decide on
imaginary products to trade, the products’ values, and a record
keeping system. Then ask the nations to role-play a situation
between the two groups. Discuss the results. (1) See also: GB4I2,
GB5I1
 Research early traders bringing tools and weapons made of bronze
to people who have never seen this metal. Write a speech to
persuade these people to trade for the bronze goods. (1, 2) See also:
GB5I1&3&4
 Trace the Silk Road trade route and identify physical barriers to the
route (lack of water through the desert, cold, icy conditions and
avalanches through the mountains). Consider why fast, safe trade
routes are important. (1, 2) See also: GB1I3, GB2I1&2, GB5I3&4
Teacher Notes:
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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Economics
Sixth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
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Economics
Sixth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems, applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) - ($) determines the costs and benefits of a spending, saving, or
borrowing decision.
2. (K) - ($) explains that budgeting requires trade-offs in managing
income and spending.
3. (K) identifies the opportunity cost that resulted from a spending
decision.
4. (A) - ($) analyzes how supply of and demand for workers in various
careers affect income.
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Using a decision making grid, determine criteria for evaluating a
product. Using the criteria, list cost and benefits of different brands
of a product to determine which the best buy is. (1, 3)
 Using a graphic organizer, budget a predetermined income to reach
a financial goal. Discuss the trade-offs that have been made to
reach the goal. (2)
 Research a career. Find out the number of people currently in the
occupation and the number of people that will be needed in the
future. Predict how the supply and demand of workers affects
salaries: nursing, technology careers, construction. (4)
Teacher Notes:
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Opportunity cost - in making a decision, the most valuable alternative not chosen.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade-off - getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another.
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Geography
Sixth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) explains and uses map titles, symbols, cardinal and
intermediate directions, legends, latitude and longitude.
2. (K) locates major physical and political features of Earth from
memory (e.g., China, Egypt, Greece, Central America,
Mediterranean Sea, Nile River, Persian Gulf, Rome, India, Sahara
Desert, Saudi Arabia, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Constantinople
(modern Istanbul), Ganges River, Himalayan Mountains, Huan He
(Yellow River), Indus River, Jerusalem, Mecca, Mesopotamia
(modern Iraq), Persia (modern Iran), Red Sea, Tigris River,
Yangtze River, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Amazon River, Andes
Mountains).
3. (A) identifies major patterns of world populations, physical features,
ecosystems, and cultures using historic and contemporary
geographic tools (e.g., maps, illustrations, photographs, documents,
data).
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Post the cardinal directions on the walls of the classroom. Group
student desks in groups of four to correspond with the posted cardinal
directions. When asked to pass papers, instruct students to pass the
papers to the west or the southeast corner of their group, etc. (1)
When grouping students, group them according to their cardinal or
intermediate directions. (1)
Use the acronym “DOGS’ TAILS” to reinforce map elements and to
guide map making (e.g., D -date, O -orientation, G – grid, S – scale, T
– title, A – author, I – index, L – legend, S – source). (1)
Routinely locate places studied on maps. (2)
Practice learning locations related to areas of study through games
such as “Baseball” or “Around the World” using a map with numbers
in place of names for the assigned location. (2)
Create a classroom “Continental Fact File” that includes one 3x5 card
for each of the major physical and political features of Earth. Play the
“memory game” by laying the cards face down on the table in a
rectangular pattern. Try to “match” each physical feature card with its
location card. (2)
Teacher Notes:
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Geographic tools - reference resources such as almanacs, gazetteers, geographic dictionaries, statistical abstracts and other data compilations used to provide
information about the earth’s surface.
Latitude - a measure of distance, north or south from the equator, expressed in degrees.
Legend - an explanatory description or key to features on a map or chart.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Longitude - a measure of distance, east or west from the Prime Meridian, expressed in degrees.
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Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
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Geography
Sixth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) identifies types of regions (e.g., climatic, economic,
cultural).
2. (K) describes how places and regions may be identified by
cultural symbols (e.g., Acropolis in Athens, Muslim minaret,
Indian sari).
3.▲(K) identifies and describes the location, landscape, climate,
and resources of early world civilizations (e.g.,
▲Mesopotamia, ▲Egypt, ▲India, ▲China, ▲Greece,
▲Rome, ▲Middle/South America, Western Europe, West
Africa, Japan).
4. (A) compares and contrasts early world civilizations in terms
of human characteristics (e.g., people, religion, language,
customs, government, agriculture, industry, architecture, arts,
education).
5. (A) traces the movement (diffusion) from one region or center
of civilization to other regions of the world (e.g., people,
goods, and ideas).
Teacher Notes:
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use symbols to illustrate maps with examples of Greek and
Roman land use. Write map keys that describe the land uses
and the differences between the two civilizations. (3,4)
 Make an ongoing chart related to location, landscape, climate,
and resources of early world civilizations. (3)
 Compare and contrast types of regions in the ancient world
(comparing climate in Mesopotamia and Meso-America with the
resulting agricultural practices). (1,3)
 Develop an “artifact museum” where students recreate models
and replicas of culturally significant items/buildings. (3,4)
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Diffusion - the spread of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Middle/South America - Mexico thru Central America, extending into South America; refers to the empires of Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas.
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Geography
Sixth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the distribution patterns of ecosystems within
hemispheres to define climatic regions.
2. (K) identifies renewable and nonrenewable resources and their
uses (e.g., fossil fuels, minerals, fertile soil, waterpower, forests).
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use maps to determine relationships among climate, landforms and
water forms, natural vegetation and ecosystems. (1)
 Using photographs or other media, identify and explain major
ecological communities. Relate to the climate of the area. (1)
 Make a list of nonrenewable and renewable resources. Indicate their
distribution on a map by using one color for renewable resources
and a different color for nonrenewable resources. (2)
Teacher Notes:
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Renewable resource - a resource that can be regenerated.
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Geography
Sixth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines reasons for variation in population distribution (e.g.,
environment, migration, government policies, birth and death rates).
2.▲(K) describes the forces and processes of conflict and cooperation
that divide or unite people (e.g., ▲uneven distribution of resources,
▲water use in ancient Mesopotamia, ▲building projects in ancient
Egypt and ▲Middle/South America, ▲the Greek city-states, empire
building, movements for independence or rights).
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Explore why people lived where they did by plotting ancient cities on
a map and comparing the locations to physical features of that region
such as bodies of water, mountains, and fertile plains. (1)
Work with a partner, each taking an opposing view to create the
editorial page for a newspaper from a specific time in history. Write
articles supporting the view taken on a conflict occurring during that
time. Include ideas on how the conflict should be resolved. (2)
Identify and map international trade flows among ancient
civilizations. (2)
Choose an ancient civilization. Design a poster showing social
classes in that civilization. Identify conflict and cooperation between
the classes. (2)
Teacher Notes:
City-states - a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
International trade - the exchange of goods and services between countries.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Middle/South America - Mexico thru Central America, extending into South America; refers to the empires of Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Population distribution - location patterns of various populations.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use
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Geography
Sixth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) explains how humans modify the environment and describes
some of the possible consequences of those modifications (e.g.,
Greeks clearing the vegetation of the hillsides, dikes on the Nile and
in the Mesopotamia raising the level of the river, terracing in Middle
America and Asia).
2. (K) describes the impact of natural hazards on people and their
activities (e.g., floods: Egypt-Nile, Mesopotamia-Tigris/Euphrates;
volcanic eruptions: Mt. Vesuvius).
3. (A) explains the relationship between the availability and use of
natural resources and advances in technology using historical and
contemporary examples (e.g., clay tablets, papyrus, paper-printing
press, computer).
4. (A) explains the relationship between resources and the exploration,
colonization and settlement patterns of different world regions (e.g.,
mercantilism, imperialism, and colonialism).
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Research a current or historical problem concerning a proposed
action that would modify the environment. Debate a position
supporting or opposing the action (1)
 Collect information through interviews or through other media
detailing the impact of a natural disaster. Present to the class in a
multi-media format (2)
 Make and/or analyze a graph showing the amount of several major
resources used in various countries of the world. Analysis should
include recognition of the difference in resources between developed
and developing countries (3,4)
 Use a hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) to check
understanding of latitude, longitude, air temperature, wind speed,
etc. Research and bring in advertisements or articles depicting GPS
applications: in cars, on golf courses, for hunters, for hikers, for
scientists, for military. Make a bulletin board TECHNOLOGY THEN
and NOW. Draw or find pictures of items through the ages which
advanced the ability to acquire and use natural resources, or
construct a 3-D representation of an item. Label items with simple
captions, including names of items, places of origin, eras or actual
years; a GPS, late 20th century: used in farming, tagging animals to
monitor movements. (3)
 Create a “pros and cons” list or a ”before and after” list of the
modifications of the environment (1)
Teacher Notes:
Colonialism - a policy by which a nation obtains and controls foreign lands as colonies, usually for economic gain.
Colonization - the establishment of colonies.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Imperialism - the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
Mercantilism - an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
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governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
foreign trading monopolies.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Sixth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, eras,
developments, and turning points in the history of the world from the emergence of human
communities to 500BC.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the importance of the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
in moving people from Nomadic to settled village life (e.g., food
production, changing technology, domestication of animals).
2.▲(A) compares the origin and accomplishments of early river valley
civilizations (e.g., Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia): city-states,
Hammurabi’s code; Nile Valley (Egypt): Pharaoh, centralized
government; Indus Valley (India): Mohenjo Daro; Huang He
(China): Shang Dynasty).
3. (K) explains central beliefs of early religions (e.g., polytheism,
monotheism, animism).
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 Use a Venn diagram to compare nomadic life in the Old Stone Age to
settled life in the New Stone Age. For each difference noted, identify
the cause of that difference. After brainstorming the climatic
conditions necessary to grow crops, locate on a physical map the
regions that would be most likely to be good places to grow crops.
Compare locations to a political map to determine the connection
between climatic conditions and the growth of settlements. (1) See
also: GB1I3, GB4I1, GB5I3&4
 Ask students to locate their own city on a map. Discuss how that
location encouraged settlement: landscape, climate, and resources.
Research the location, landscape, climate, and resources of the river
valley civilizations. Discuss what they have in common and how
geography encouraged settlement at those points. Create a class
wall chart to compare the early river civilizations as they are studied
during the year, including these headings: government, religion,
major accomplishments. Fill in the chart as study continues and add
illustrations. (1, 2) See also: GB1I2, GB2I1&3&4, GB4I1, GB5I3,
EB1I1
 Appoint students to create a piece of artwork that represents one of
the early religions of the world. Before creating the artwork, research
religions to make sure the artwork represents that religion. Students
should be able to answer: Who followed that religion? What did they
believe? When in time was that religion practiced? Where was it
practiced? How did believers practice their religion? (3) See also:
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Teacher Notes:
Animism - the belief in the existence of individual spirits can be found in natural objects and phenomena.
City-states - a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Dynasty - a family or group that maintains power for several generations.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Monotheism - belief in a single God
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Polytheism - the doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Sixth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, eras,
developments, and turning points in the history of the world from 500BC to 700AD.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) compares and contrast characteristics of classic Greek
government (e.g., city-states, slavery, rule by aristocrats and tyrants,
Athens: development of democracy, Sparta: city’s needs come
first).
2. (K) describes the significant contributions of ancient Greece to
western culture (e.g., philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle;
literature/drama: Homer, Greek plays, architecture, sculpture).
3. (K) explains the cultural interactions in the Hellenistic Age (e.g.,
Alexander the Great, Persian Empire).
4.▲(K) describes key characteristics of classical Roman government
(e.g., Roman Republic: senate, consuls, veto, written law; Roman
Empire: emperors, expansion).
5. (A) analyzes the reasons for the decline and fall of the Roman
Empire.
6.▲(A) examines the central beliefs of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Judaism, and Islam.
7. (A) traces the development and spread of Christianity.
8. (K) describes key cultural accomplishments of classical India (e.g.,
Asoka, Sanskrit literature, the Hindu-Arabic numerals, the zero,
Buddhism, Hinduism).
9.▲(K) describes key accomplishments of ancient China (e.g., Great
Wall of China, Shi Huangdi, dynastic cycle, Mandate of Heaven,
Taoism, Confucianism, civil service, Silk Road).
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 Use a Venn diagram comparing life in Athens to life in Sparta. Divide
students into two groups to write diary entries. Have half the students
write as if they were a child in Athens and the other half write as if
they were a child in Sparta. Have them describe their daily life from
sunrise to sunset, including information about family members. Have
students share entries with a partner from the other city-state,
explaining to each other why their life is best. (1) See also: GB2I4,
GB4I2
 Perform an actual Greek drama or comedy. Translations of several
Greek plays can be found online. web resource:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/blGreekPlays.htm (1, 2)
 Use maps to compare the sizes of the Qin and Han Empires in China
with the empire of Alexander the Great. Research the Qin and Han
Empires and the Hellenistic kingdoms to support the statement,
“Empires unify the culture of their people.” (3) See also: HB2I8&9,
HB5I1, GB1I2&3, GB2I4&5
 Create a wall chart comparing the characteristics of ancient Greece,
ancient Rome, and the modern United States governments. Write
statements based on the wall chart to compare and contrast the
governments. (2, 4) See also: HB2I1, C-GB4I1
 Use a three category graphic organizer to note the fall of the Roman
Empire: economics, geography, and government. While reading,
identify the causes of the fall in the appropriate category. Share
graphic organizers to determine which of the three categories
contributed most to the fall of the Roman Empire. List at least two
specific reasons. ( 4, 5) See also: C-GB4I2, C-GB5I2, GB2I3, GB4I2,
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List key cultural accomplishments of classical India. Use an Internet
treasure hunt to find pictures and information. Put the pictures and
information together in a PowerPoint to share with other students.
(6, 7) See also: HB2I6, HB5I3, GB1I3, GB2I4&5
Hand out charts of the dynastic cycle in China (e.g., 1) A new
dynasty rises, 2) The new dynasty rules, 3) The dynasty grows weak,
4) The dynasty falls, and 5) A period of violence follows). Have
students read about the Qin and Han dynasties to find details that
describe each phase in the dynastic cycle. (8) See also: HB2I9,
HB5I1, C-GB5I2, GB2I4
Create a chart with two columns, one marked “China”, and the other
“the West”. While reading about the Silk Road, list products traded
along the Silk Road on the chart in the proper columns. Trace the
Silk Road on a map and place illustrations on the map of the
products near their point of origin. Point out that international
economic interdependence means that people rely on products and
trade from other countries. Determine the cost (cons) and benefits
(pros) of trading on the Silk Road. (8) See also: EB1I2, EB3I1&2,
GB1I2, GB2I5, GB5I3
Teacher Notes:
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
City-states - a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Democracy - form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative.
Dynasty - a family or group that maintains power for several generations.
Economic interdependence - mutually dependent on each other financially.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Philosophy - investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
Republic - a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Sixth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, eras,
developments, and turning points in the history of the world from 700-1400.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes the governmental/political, social, and economic
institutions and innovations of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca
civilizations.
2. (K) describes the governmental/political, social, and economic
institutions and innovations of the Byzantine Empire.
3. (K) describes the political and economic institutions of medieval
Europe (e.g., manorialism, feudalism, Magna Carta, Christendom,
rise of cities and trade).
4. (K) describes Japanese feudalism and compares to European
feudalism.
5. (A) explains geographic, economic, political reasons for Islam’s
spread into Europe, Asia, and Africa (e.g., geographic, economic,
political reasons).
6. (A) discusses how the Crusades allowed interaction between the
Islamic world and medieval Europe (e.g., science, education,
architecture, mathematics, medicine, the arts, literature).
7. (K) explains the impact of Mongol Empires (e.g., trade routes, Silk
Road, horse, Ghengis Khan).
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 Create a graphic organizer with three categories: government,
economics, and social for each Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.
Review the meaning of these three categories: governmental/politics
– how law and order are provided for a people, how rights and
responsibilities are defined, how needs and wants are met; economic
– how goods and services are produced, who makes the economic
decisions, what and for whom are goods and services produced;
social – family, religion, education. While reading texts, list
examples of each in the graphic organizer. Write one sentence that
summarizes each category. (1) See also: C-GB1I1, C-GB4I1, CGB5I1-2, EB1I1, EB3I1-2, GB2I4, GB4I2
 Write a television script about the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
Provide background information about what the Byzantine Empire
was like before its downfall, and provide information about the
causes of its decline. Present interviews for the class, using maps
and visual aids. (2) See also: EB1I2, EB3I1-2, C-GB5I2, GB1I2,
GB2I2-5
 Role-play life as a troubadour. Write a songs or poems to describe
life in Medieval Europe. Assigned certain perspectives from which to
write their songs: a serf, a craftsman, a lord, a crusader, etc. (3, 6)
See also: GB4I2, EB1I1
 Construct a Venn diagram comparing European and Japanese
feudalism. (4) See also: C-GB5I1&2, GB2I4
 Locate Mongolia, China, India, and Japan on a map. Role-play
Kublai Kahn’s plans of attack to increase the empire: How should he
do it? Write a speech that Genghis or Kublai Kahn could have given
to the people in these nations convincing them of the advantages
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part of the Mongol Empire. (7) See also: EB3I1-2, C-GB4I2, CGB5I2, GB2I5
Teacher Notes:
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Feudalism - an economic and political system in which lords grant land to vassals in exchange for protection, allegiance, and other services.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Magna Carta - document signed by King John of England in 1215 A.D. that guaranteed certain basic rights; considered the beginning of constitutional government
in England.
Manorialism - a medieval economic, social, and political system based on the manor (an estate ruled by a lord who enjoyed a variety of rights over land and
tenants).
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Sixth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Sixth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) examines a topic in World history to analyze changes over time
and makes logical inferences concerning cause and effect (e.g.,
spread of ideas and innovation, rise and fall of empires).
2. (A) examines a variety of primary sources in World history and
analyzes them in terms of credibility, purpose, and point of view
(e.g., census records, diaries, photographs, letters, government
documents).
3. (A) uses at least three primary sources to interpret a person or
event from World history to develop an historical narrative.
4. (A) compares contrasting descriptions of the same event in World
history to understand how people differ in their interpretations of
historical events.
Teacher Notes:
Sixth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Compare how the Mongolian civilization was able to spread ideas
resulting in cultural diffusion: Silk Road, conquering of civilizations,
etc. Discuss how nations been impacted by American contact: blue
jeans in Russia, McDonalds in China and France. (1)
 Create a two-column organizer to show what cultural traditions and
innovations the United States have adopted from other nations and
what cultural traditions and innovations have been adopted by other
nations that reflect the United States. (1)
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Cultural diffusion -the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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Civics-Government
Seventh Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) understands the difference between criminal and civil law as it
applies to individual citizens (e.g., criminal: felony, misdemeanor,
crimes against people, crimes against property, white-collar crimes,
victimless crimes; civil: contracts, property settlements, child
custody).
2.▲(A) compares how juveniles and adults are treated differently under
law (e.g., due process, trial, age restrictions, punishment,
rehabilitation, diversion).
3. (A) evaluates the importance of the rule of law in protecting
individual rights and promoting the common good.
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Share short scenarios of cases and have students identify the
correct placement, civil or criminal, to prove understanding of the
terms. (1)
Create a flow chart for juvenile justice and another for adult criminal
justice. Note the different in rights: closed juvenile records as
opposed to open records for adults; right to a jury trial by peers as
opposed to a hearing heard by a judge only. Resource: For the
Record. (2)
Discuss “what makes a good law?” or “what is the basic criteria for
all laws?” Propose a new local ordinance: curfews for teens.
Simulate a debate over this ordinance based on the rule of law. (3).
Invite a community lawyer as a guest speaker. (1, 2, 3)
Simulate a court case or hold a mock trial. (1, 2, 3)
Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Common good - for the benefit or interest of a politically organized society as a whole.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Diversion - in criminal procedure, a system for giving a chance for a first-time criminal defendant in lesser crimes to perform community service, make restitution,
or obtain treatment and/or counseling.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Rule of law - principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law.
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Civics-Government
Seventh Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) defines the rights guaranteed, granted, and protected by the
Kansas Constitution and its amendments.
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Using the Kansas Constitution as a primary source, create a listing
of the rights mentioned in it with a short definition or meaning of
each. (1)
 Use local newspaper to clip articles or pictures that have underlying
rights supported by the Kansans Constitution. (1).
Teacher Notes:
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Seventh Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the three branches of Kansas government.
2. (K) explains how authority and responsibility are balanced and
divided between national and state governments in a federal
system (e.g., federal: postage regulation, coinage of money,
federal highways, national defense; state: state highways, state
parks, education).
3. (K) explains why separation of powers and a system of checks and
balances are important to limit government.
4. (K) describes how citizens, legislators, and interest groups are
involved in a bill becoming a law at the state level.
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a Venn diagram to identify national and state responsibilities and
discuss the problems that would occur if government power were
held by a single entity. (1, 2)
 Use a metaphor to explain the separation of power. Explain that a
football team has an offensive team, a defensive team, and a head
coach with assistants for each team. The team can only win a game
if both teams are equally strong; they could not win on the power of
the offensive team alone. One team is limited in the ability to win the
game, based on the performance of the other. The coach has a
responsibility to balance and monitor the performance of both teams
in order to make winning plays. Have students draw a picture using
another metaphor and label the picture with explanations of
separation of power and checks and balances. (1, 2)
 Write a letter as a citizen to a state legislator proposing a new law or
in support of an existing law. Resource: Kansas Lawmaker cd. (3)
Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
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Civics-Government
Seventh Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) designs, researches and completes a civic project related to a
public issue at the state or local level (e.g., designs and carries out
a civic-oriented project).
2. (K) knows various procedures for contacting appropriate
representatives for the purpose of expressing ideas or asking for
help at the state or local level (e.g., public hearing, open meeting,
phone, email, letter, personal interview).
Teacher Notes:
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 Give a written or oral presentation describing the purpose and result
of the civic project. (1, 2)
 Write a letter or email to a local official expressing a concern or a
need for change. (1, 2)
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Civics-Government
Seventh Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes that cities are formed through a process of
incorporation, establishing boundaries, creating a government,
levying taxes.
2. (K) identifies the types of local government (e.g., cities, townships,
counties)
3.▲(K) identifies the goods and services provided by local government
in the community (e.g., education, health agency, fire department,
police, care for local community property, parks and recreation).
4. (A) researches the roles of people who make up local government
(e.g., police, mayor/city manager, county commissioner, city council
members, school board members).
5. (K) understands the role of school boards.
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Research the founding and development of a Kansas city and
provide a rationale for location, type of local governance structure,
etc. (1, 2)
 Use a Venn diagram to organize information concerning the roles of
each local government entity. (2)
 Invite a school board member to class to share the role of the school
board in relationship to their everyday educational lives. (4, 5)
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Incorporation - cities are formed through a process of incorporation, establishing boundaries, creating a government, levying taxes.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
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Economics
Seventh Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies substitutes and complements for selected goods and
services (e.g., substitutes: sod houses vs. wood houses, wagons
vs. railroads; complements: trains and rails, wagons and wheels).
2. (K) explains that how people choose to use resources has both
present and future consequences.
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Make flash cards with substitute goods (Pepsi – Coke, Designer
clothes – brand name clothes, car – bike) and complementary goods
(hotdog-mustard, shirt- pants, paper- pencil). In groups of two or
three, have the students match up the complementary goods and the
substitute goods. (1)
 Discuss how using the human resource (slavery) to produce labor
intense crops had immediate and long-term consequences in the
Southern colonies. On a sheet of paper have students write a short
paragraph telling why slavery was used in the production of certain
goods. Under the paragraph have the students make a T-chart and
label it Present Consequences and Future Consequences. The
students should then list the immediate consequence: created an
increase in the slave trade, plantation owners were able to plant and
harvest more crops. Future consequences: Civil War, discrimination,
etc. (2)
Teacher Notes:
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Human resource - people who work in jobs to produce goods and services.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Economics
Seventh Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) - ($) analyzes the impact of inflation or deflation on the value of
money and people’s purchasing power (e.g., cattle towns, mining
towns, time of “boom”, time of depression).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Draw a political cartoon illustrating the price of a new car for the year
the students were born comparing that price to the cost of a new car
today.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Deflation - the sustained decrease in the general price level of the entire economy, resulting in an increase in the purchasing power of money.
Depression - a period of drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment.
Inflation - sustained increase in the general price level of the entire economy, resulting in a reduction in the purchasing power of money.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
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Economics
Seventh Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) describes examples of factors that might influence
international trade (e.g., United States economic sanctions,
weather, exchange rates, war, boycotts, embargos).
2. (K) explains the costs and benefits of trade between people
across nations (e.g., job loss vs. cheaper prices, environmental
costs vs. wider selection of goods and services).
3. (A) gives examples of factors that might influence international
trade (e.g., United States economic sanctions, weather, exchange
rate, war, boycotts, embargos).
4. (A) gives examples of how tariffs, quotas, and other trade barriers
affect consumers and the prices of goods (e.g., a country fearful
of purchasing Kansas beef for fear of disease, tariffs on Kansas
wheat).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Give examples of imported and exported goods. Explain how
importing and exporting has both benefits and costs.(2)
 Use newspapers, magazines and the internet to research
examples of factors that influence international trade. (3)
 Invite a business representative into the classroom to discuss
tariffs and quotas on products and their effects on prices. (4)
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Economic sanction - the withholding, usually by several nations, of loans or trade relations with a nation violating international law, to force it to comply.
Embargo - government restriction placed on trade.
Exchange rate - the price of one currency in relation to another currency.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
International trade - the exchange of goods and services between countries.
Quota - a proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment or a production assignment.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Tariff - a tax imposed on imported goods.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
Trade barriers - something that prohibits trade.
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Economics
Seventh Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies goods and services provided by local, state, and
national governments (e.g., transportation, education, defense).
2. (A) examines relationship between local and state revenues and
expenditures (e.g., school bonds, sales tax, property tax, teacher
salaries, curbs and gutters, police force).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Make a list of items your local, state, and national governments are
spending money on. Separate those expenditures into goods and
services. Identify sources of revenue that pay for these
expenditures and each level. (1)
 Bring in a guest speaker from the local treasurer's office to discuss
revenues and expenditures for your city, county, and state. (2)
Expenditures - spending on goods and services.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Revenue - receipts from sales of goods and services.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
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Economics
Seventh Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) - ($) compares the benefits and costs of spending, saving, or
borrowing decisions based on information about products and
services.
2. (K) explains how an individual’s income will differ in the labor
market depending on supply of and demand for his/her human
capital (e.g., skills, abilities, and/or education level).
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Compare store advertisements of similar items to determine the best
over all buy using criteria such as price, warranty, location of store,
refund policy, etc. (1)
 Use an education/average income chart to compute lifetime earning
averages based on education attained. (2)
 Have the students look through the want adds of a major newspaper
to select different occupations, the students should make a chart
showing the occupation, human capital, wage of each occupation.
Using the students information discuss how the supply and demand
of specific human capital can affect the income level of workers. (2)
Teacher Notes:
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Human capital, human resource - people who work in jobs to produce goods and services.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Market - exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
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Geography
Seventh Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) locates major political and physical features of Earth from
memory and describes the relative location of those features (e.g.,
see Appendix 2 for list of items).
2. (A) develops and uses different kinds of maps, globes, graphs,
charts, databases, and models.
3. (A) uses mental maps of Kansas to answer questions about the
location of physical and human features (e.g., drier in the West;
major rivers; population centers; major cities: Topeka, Wichita,
Hays, Dodge City, Kansas City; major interstates and highways: I70, US 56).
4. (A) selects and explains reasons for using different geographic
tools, graphic representation, and/or technologies to analyze
selected geographic problems (e.g., map projections, aerial
photographs, satellite images, geographic information systems).
5. (A) uses geographic tools, graphic representation, and/or
technologies to pose and answer questions about past and present
spatial distributions and patterns (e.g., mountain ranges, river
systems, field patterns, settlements, transportation routes).
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Create mnemonic jingles to aid in the memorization of major political
and physical features of the area they are studying. (1)
Create climatographs from climatic data and interpret the results. (2,
4, 5) web resource:
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/biology/biomes/act_main.htm
Use maps of Kansas to analyze population distribution in Kansas in
relation to physical regions, rivers, and precipitation. (3)
Use geographic information system (GIS) technology to create maps
showing concentrations of agriculture in specified states and/or
countries. Start with counties in Kansas, then the other states in the
U.S., Canadian provinces and Mexican states. First, students will
predict where they expect to find the highest concentration of farms,
the highest total number of acres farmed, and the highest average
farm size. Access the data on-line and add information to the base
map. Analyze the maps created to note any spatial patterns in farm
concentrations, changes over the last few decades, and hypothesize
possible reasons. Overlay the maps with additional GIS data
showing precipitation, land topography, and any other factors that
students include in the hypothesis. Write conclusions resulting from
the analysis. Sources for GIS data include the Kansas Data Access
and Support Center, in conjunction with the Kansas Geological
Survey at the University of Kansas: http://gisdasc.kgs.ukans.edu. (1,
2, 3, 4, 5)
Teacher Notes:
Database - a compilation, structuring, and categorization of information for analysis and interpretation.
Geographic Information System (GIS) - a computerized geographic database that contains information about the spatial distribution of physical and human
characteristics of Earth’s surface.
Geographic tools - reference resources such as almanacs, gazetteers, geographic dictionaries, statistical abstracts and other data compilations used to provide
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information about the earth’s surface.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Map projections - the transfer of the shape of land and water bodies, along with a global grid, from a globe to a flat map.
Mental Maps - the mental image a person has of an area.
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
Population distribution - location patterns of various populations.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Relative location - the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
Satellite image - images taken by manmade orbiting bodies.
Spatial distribution - the location(s) shown on a map of a set of human or physical features.
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Geography
Seventh Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) identifies and compares the physical characteristics of world
regions (e.g., locations, landscape, climate, vegetation, resources).
2. (A) identifies and compares the human characteristics of world
regions (e.g., people, religion, language, customs, government,
agriculture, industry, architecture, arts, education).
3. (K) identifies and explains how Kansas, United States, and world
regions are interdependent (e.g., through trade, diffusion of ideas,
human migration, international conflicts and cooperation).
4.▲(K) identifies the various physical and human criteria that can be
used to define a region (e.g., physical: mountain, coastal, climate;
human: religion, ethnicity, language, economic, government).
5. (K) identifies ways technology or culture has influenced regions
(e.g., perceptions of resource availability, dominance of specific
regions, economic development).
6. (A) explains the effects of a label on the image of a region (e.g.,
Tornado Alley, Sun Belt, The Great “American” Desert).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Analyze photographs to identify different world regions. (1,2,4, 6)
 Inventory items in different rooms of homes, listing items and where
they came from. Identify the places of origin on a world map. (3)
 Compare the Middle East before and after the discovery of oil in the
region. (4)
 Research the impact on Kansas and India of the outsourcing of
computer jobs to Asia. (3, 5)
 Investigate how a label came to be associated with a given area.
Draw an editorial cartoon illustrating the label; add a caption and a
small outline map of the United States. Shade in the region. (6)
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Diffusion - the spread of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Outsourcing - paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform.
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Geography
Seventh Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains how earth-sun relationships affect earth’s physical
processes and create physical patterns (e.g., latitude regions,
climate regions, distribution of solar energy, ocean currents).
2. (K) explains patterns in the physical environment in terms of
physical processes (e.g., tectonic plates, glaciation, erosion and
deposition, hydrologic cycle, ocean and atmospheric circulation).
3. (K) describes the characteristics of ecosystems in terms of their
biodiversity (e.g., biodiversity: food chains, plant and animal
communities; ecosystems: grasslands, temperate forests, tropical
rainforests, deserts, tundra, wetlands, and marine environments).
4. (K) explains the challenges faced by ecosystems (e.g., effects of
shifting cultivation, contamination of coastal waters, rainforest
destruction, desertification, deforestation, overpopulation, natural
disasters).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Plot weather phenomena onto a world map (e.g., hurricanes in the
fall in subtropical areas) (1)
 Use a model of the earth and sun to demonstrate seasons, time
zones, ocean currents, prevailing winds, etc. (1)
 Use models to demonstrate earth-sun relationships. (1)
 Gather earthquake data for a two week period (USGS website. Plot
locations and compare the results with a map showing tectonic
plates. (2)
 Identify and explain major ecological communities and the
differences between them, using photographs and other media as
illustrations. (3)
 Scan the media for stories of ecological problems or disasters.
Identify the contributing factors, hypothesize potential solutions and
suggest prevention strategies for the future. (3,4)
Biodiversity - the number and variety of plant and animal life in a defined area; a measure of biological differences.
Glaciation - the formation of glaciers; the condition of being covered by glaciers; the effects produced by the action of glaciers.
Hydrologic Cycle - the continuous circulation of water from the oceans, through the air, to the land, and back to the sea; evaporation, condensation, and
precipitation.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Physical process - a course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters Earth’s physical systems (e.g., glaciation, erosion, deposition).
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Geography
Seventh Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) describes and analyzes population characteristics through the
use of demographic concepts (e.g., population pyramids,
birth/death rates, population growth rates, migration patterns).
2. K) explains how the spread of cultural elements results in distinctive
cultural landscapes (e.g., religion, language, customs, ethnic
neighborhoods, foods).
3.▲(K) identifies the geographic factors that influence world trade and
interdependence (e.g., location advantage, resource distribution,
labor cost, technology, trade networks and organizations).
Teacher Notes:
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Create population pyramids for different countries and organize them
into groups based on similarities. (1)
Investigate the impact of United States clothing customs on the rest
of the world (e.g., blue jeans and tennis shoes). (2)
Create a collage of pictures from at least four countries that illustrate
a pattern of cultural diffusion. (2)
Identify and map international trade flows (e.g., automobiles from
South Korea, coffee from Columbia). (3)
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Cultural diffusion -the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another.
Cultural landscape -the surface of the earth as modified by human action, including housing types, settlement patterns, and agricultural use.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Interdependence - people relying on each other in different places or in the same place for ideas, goods, and services.
International trade - the exchange of goods and services between countries.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Population pyramid - a bar graph showing the distribution by gender and age of the population of a country or other political entity.
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Geography
Seventh Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) identifies ways in which technologies have modified the physical
environment of various world cultures (e.g., dams, levees,
aqueducts, irrigation, roads, bridges, plow).
2. (K) describes the consequences of having or not having particular
resources (e.g., resource movement and consumption, relationship
between access to resources and living standards, relationship
between competition for resources and world conflicts).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Study the ecological impact of building the Aswan High Dam on the
Nile. Then predict the effects of the Three Gorges Dam on the
Yangtze River. (1)
Consumption - the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during the period
before settlement in pre-territorial Kansas (pre 1854).
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) compares and contrasts nomadic and sedentary tribes in
Kansas (e.g., food, housing, art, customs).
2. (A) describes the social and economic impact of Spanish, French
and American explorers and traders on the Indian tribes in Kansas.
3. (K) explains how Stephen H. Long’s classification of Kansas as the
“Great American Desert” influenced later United States government
policy on American Indian relocation.
4.▲(A) analyzes the impact of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 on the
way of life for emigrant Indian tribes relocated to Kansas (e.g., loss
of land and customary resources, disease and starvation,
assimilation, inter-tribal conflict).
5. (K) describes the role of early Kansas forts in carrying out the
United States government’s policies in regards to relocated Indian
tribes and travel on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California trails (e.g.,
Fort Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Fort Larned, and Fort Riley).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Discuss the difference between a nomadic and sedentary life. Divide
the class into small groups and have each research the food,
housing, art, and customs of one of the following tribes –nomadic:
Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, Comanche, and sedentary:
Wichita, Pawnee, Kansa, Osage. Have each group determine if their
tribe was nomadic or sedentary and support their conclusion through
the information gathered. As a class discuss which tribes share
cultural similarities. (1) See also: GB4I2.
 Locate the original homelands of the Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, Iowa,
Delaware, Potawatomi, and Shawnee on a United States map.
Locate the land they were removed to in Kansas. Create a chart that
compares resources available in the homeland vs. resources in
Kansas. Discuss the impact of the removal. (4) See also: GB5I2.
Emigrant - a person (migrating away from) leaving a country or area to settle in another.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during Kansas territory
and the Civil War (1854-1865).
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) describes the concept of popular sovereignty under the KansasNebraska Act and its impact on developing a state constitution.
2.▲(K) describes how the dispute over slavery shaped life in Kansas
Territory (e.g., border ruffians, bushwhackers, jayhawkers, the
Underground Railroad, free-staters, abolitionists).
3. (A) analyzes the importance of “Bleeding Kansas” to the rest of the
United States in the years leading up to the Civil War (e.g., national
media attention, caning of Senator Charles Sumner, Emigrant Aid
Societies, Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony, poems of John
Greenleaf Whittier, John Brown).
4. (K) describes the role of important individuals during the territorial
period (e.g., Charles Robinson, James Lane, John Brown, Clarina
Nichols, Samuel Jones, David Atchison, Andrew H. Reeder).
5. (A) analyzes the Wyandotte Constitution with respect to the civil
rights of women and African Americans.
6. (K) describes important events in Kansas during the Civil War (e.g.,
Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, the Battle of Mine Creek, recruitment
of volunteer regiments).
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Review the speeches of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln to
determine the arguments for and against popular sovereignty. Use
census data to illustrate where settlers to Kansas Territory came
from. Would people from the north and south bring different ideas
about slavery to the territory? Review proposed state constitutions
for their position on slavery. (1) See also CGB2I1.
 Review pro-slavery and anti-slavery newspapers from the Territory to
determine points-of-view about events during the period. (2)
 Act as national correspondent living in the East during the territorial
period. Use articles and political cartoons published in Harper’s
Weekly during the territorial period for research. Report the news
from Kansas Territory. (3)
 Read the Wyandotte Constitution (which becomes the state
constitution), identifying voting rights, property right, and militia
eligibility. Develop a chart comparing the rights of African American
men, white men over the age of 21, and women. (5) See also
CGB2I1.
 Read the reminiscence of Katie Riggs (or a similar first-hand
account). Discuss the impact of Quantrill’s Raid on the citizens of
Lawrence. (6)
Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Sovereignty - ultimate, supreme power in a state; in the United States, sovereignty rests with the people.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during the period of
expansion and development in Kansas (1860s - 1870s).
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) describes the reasons for tension between the American
Indians and the United States government over land in Kansas
(e.g., encroachment on Indian lands, depletion of the buffalo and
other natural resources, the Sand Creek massacre, broken
promises).
2. (K) describes the United States government’s purpose for
establishing frontier military forts in Kansas (e.g., protection of
people, land, resources).
3. (A) determines the significance of the cattle drives in post-Civil War
Kansas and their impact on the American identity (e.g., Chisholm
Trail, cowboys, cattle towns).
4. (A) traces the migration patterns of at least one European ethnic
group to Kansas (e.g., English, French, Germans, GermanRussians, Swedes).
5.▲(K) describes the reasons for the Exoduster movement from the
South to Kansas (e.g., relatively free land, symbol of Kansas as a
free state, the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South, promotions of
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton).
6. (K) explains the impact of government policies and the expansion of
the railroad on settlement and town development (e.g., preemption,
Homestead Act, Timber Claim Act, railroad lands).
7. (A) uses primary source documents to determine the challenges
faced by settlers and their means of adaptations (e.g., drought,
depression, grasshoppers, lack of some natural resources,
isolation).
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Divide the class into two teams. Ask one team to represent the
American Indian tribes and the other the U.S. government, during the
time of the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaties. Using the speeches of
Satanta and Senator Henderson as primary resources, have each
group prepare a brief citing their client’s perspective and point of
view. Present the material in a class debate. (1)
 Use reminiscences and diaries to research life on the Texas to
Kansas cattle drives. View a western-themed movie or television
show that uses the time period as a setting. Compare and contrast
the portrayals of the cowboy. (3)
 Review economic conditions for African Americans in the South after
the Civil War. How did the supply and demand for human capital in
southern agriculture change? How did social and cultural conditions
affect the ability for African Americans to have a decent standard of
living? What made Kansas look like the “promised land” to African
Americans? Make a chart showing the push-pull factors that brought
the Exodusters to Kansas. (5) See also: EB5I2 and GB2I6
 Make a chart showing the positive and negative incentives inherent
in the Homestead Act, Preemption Act, Timber Claim Act, and
Railroad Land Grants. See also: EB3I1. (6)
Depletion - the lessening or exhaustion of a supply.
Depression - a period of drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment.
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Ethnic group - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Human capital, human resource - people who work in jobs to produce goods and services.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Push-pull factors - in migration theory, the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that drive or draw people away from their previous location, often
simultaneously.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments during the period of
reform in Kansas (1880s - 1920s).
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) describes the movement for women’s suffrage and its effect on
Kansas politics (e.g., the fight for universal suffrage, impact of
women on local elections).
2.▲(K) describes the development of Populism in Kansas (e.g.,
disillusionment with big Eastern business, railroads, government
corruption, high debts and low prices for farmers).
3. (K) explains the accomplishments of the Progressive movement in
Kansas (e.g. election and government reforms, labor reforms,
public health campaigns, regulation of some businesses).
4. (K) analyzes the impact of Kansas reformers on the nation (e.g.,
Populists: Mary E. Lease, Annie Diggs, William Peffer, “Sockless”
Jerry Simpson; Progressives: Carry A. Nation, Samuel Crumbine,
William Allen White, Socialists: J.A. Wayland, Kate Richards
O’Hare, Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius).
5. (K) describes the significance of farm mechanization in Kansas
(e.g., increased farm size and production, specialized crops,
population redistribution).
6. (A) explains the significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans
in the aviation industry (e.g., Alvin Longren, Clyde Cessna, Walter
and Olive Beech, Lloyd Stearman).
7. (A) describes the contributions made by Mexican immigrants to
agriculture and the railroad industry.
Teacher Notes:
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Review the environmental conditions for farmers in the late 1880s
and early 1890s. What were the economic conditions of the same
time period? How might these conditions affect a farmer’s income?
How might these factors lead to political discontent among farmers?
Develop a graphic that shows the correlation between the economic
and environmental conditions, the farmer’s discontent, and the
platform of the People’s Party. (2) See also: GB5I1 and EB2I1.
 Study the public health literature and political cartoons produced by
Samuel Crumbine’s office. Create posters in the spirit of a Crumbine
campaign that deal with a public health issue faced by teenagers
today. (3)
 Write a biography of a Kansas reformer who lived during the 1880s –
1920s. Turn the biographies into trading cards by summarizing the
important accomplishments of each reformer on a small card. (4)
 Create a time line that shows the invention and development of farm
machinery as it relates to grain production. Discuss the effect of
each invention on a farmer’s productivity. (5)
Debt - the accumulated negative balance.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Immigration - to enter and settle in a country to which one is not native.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 5: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments in Kansas during the
Great Depression and World War II. (1930s - 1940s).
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) compares agricultural practices before and after the dust storms
of the 1930s (e.g., rotation of crops, shelter belts, irrigation,
terracing, stubble mulch).
2. (A) uses local resources to describe conditions in his/her
community during the Great Depression.
3. (A) researches the contributions of Kansans during the 1930s &
1940s (e.g., Amelia Earhart, Osa and Martin Johnson, Glenn
Cunningham, Walter Chrysler, Langston Hughes, John Steuart
Curry, Dwight Eisenhower, Alf Landon, Arthur Capper, Birger
Sandzen).
4. (K) summarizes the effects of New Deal programs on Kansas life.
5. (K) explains how World War II acted as a catalyst for change in
Kansas (e.g., women entering work force, increased mobility,
changing manufacturing practices).
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Develop a chart with three columns. In column one place the causes
of the Dust Bowl, in column two place the results, and in column
three place the solutions. Using letters, diaries, reminiscences, and
newspapers develop a class drama that depicts the human and
environmental cost of the Dust Bowl, or read a literary depiction of
the time period. (1) See also: GB3I4.
 Study the programs of the WPA in Kansas. Using newspapers from
the time period, research WPA projects in the community or in the
surrounding area. Take a fieldtrip to photograph WPA buildings,
parks, and public art completed under the WPA. Create a
community scrapbook containing photographs, and short essays
about the effects of the WPA in the community. (4)
 Interview a member of the community that can remember life before,
during, and after World War II. Conduct oral interviews focusing on
the changes that took place after the war. Discuss if these changes
were brought on by factors during the war. (5)
Teacher Notes:
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Depression - a period of drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 6: The student understands individuals, groups, ideas, events, and developments in contemporary
Kansas (since 1950).
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) analyzes the concept of “separate but equal is inherently
unequal” in regards to the Supreme Court case Brown vs. Topeka
Board of Education and how it continues to impact the nation.
2. (K) describes major flood control projects in the 1950s.
3. (A) describes the role of Kansas culture in the dramas of Pulitzer
prize-winning playwright William Inge and the writings, photos, and
films of Gordon Parks.
4. (A) analyzes the effect of rural depopulation and increased
urbanization and suburbanization on Kansas.
5. (K) explains the reasons Southeast Asians immigrated to Kansas
after 1975 (e.g., church, community, organizations, jobs, the fall of
Southeast Asian governments).
6. (K) identifies issues facing Kansas state government in the 2000s
(e.g., economic diversity, global economy, water issues, school
funding).
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Study the conditions in both a white and black school in Topeka after
World War II. Compare the facilities, materials, and human
resources available in both schools. Develop a Venn diagram that
shows how they were alike and how they were different. Discuss
that even though the schools had most things in common going to
school in separate facilities creates an unequal society and feelings
of inferiority. Have the students write an essay explaining the
concept “separate but equal is inherently unequal.” (1)
 Read aloud a scene from one of the dramas of William Inge (e.g.
“Picnic,” “Dark at the Top of the Stairs”). Discuss life in Kansas
during the post-war years according to Inge. Read aloud and
discuss a chapter from Gordon Park’s “The Learning Tree.” Create a
visual collage that depicts the emotional response to Kansas in one
or both of the writers work. (3)
 Research the state legislative districts in Kansas in 1900 and 2000.
Based on this data discuss how the population of Kansas has
shifted. Using newspapers from the time periods compare the
political issues that are important during each era. Do these political
issues reflect a shifting population? (4)
 Invite a member of the local school board to class to discuss how
schools in Kansas are funded. Have the students write editorials
about the school finance law and its effect of their school. (6) See
also: C-GB4I2
Teacher Notes:
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
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Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Human capital, human resource - people who work in jobs to produce goods and services.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Seventh Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 7: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Seventh Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
Seventh Grade Instructional Suggestions
The student:
 In groups, pick a topic in Kansas territorial history and locate three
1. (A) analyzes changes over time to make logical inferences
primary sources about that topic. Give an oral presentation
concerning cause and effect by examining a topic in Kansas
answering the following questions: Is the source reliable and why?
history.
Why was the source created? What is the point of view of the
2.▲(A) examines different types of primary sources in Kansas history
source? Present a supported conclusion of what the primary
and analyzes them in terms of credibility, purpose, and point of view
sources tell us about the topic. Numerous primary sources from the
(e.g., census records, diaries, photographs, letters, government
Kansas territorial period can be found online at
documents).
www.territorialkansasonline.org. (2)
3. (A) uses at least three primary sources to interpret the impact of a
person or event from Kansas history to develop an historical
narrative.
4. (A) compares contrasting descriptions of the same event in Kansas
history to understand how people differ in their interpretations of
historical events.
Teacher Notes:
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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Civics-Government
Eighth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
This benchmark will be taught at another grade level.
Teacher Notes:
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Civics-Government
Eighth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the recurring problems and solutions involving minority
rights (e.g., Title IX, job discrimination, affirmative action).
Teacher Notes:
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Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
Create a timeline of social changes, such as voting rights for women
and minorities. Discuss why these rights were first denied, and then
explain the circumstance that brought about change. (1)
Affirmative action - any of a wide range of programs aimed at expanding opportunities for women and minorities.
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Civics-Government
Eighth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) understands that the United States Constitution is written by
and for the people and it defines the authority and power given to
the government as well as recognizes the rights retained by the
state governments and the people (e.g., separation of power,
limited government, state’s rights, the concept “by and for the
people”)
2. (A) researches historical examples of how legislative, executive,
and judicial powers have been challenged at the national level
(e.g., secession, appointment of officials, Marbury v Madison).
3.▲(K) explains how the United States Constitution can be changed
through amendments.
4.▲(A) analyzes the Declaration of Independence and the United
States Constitution to identify essential ideas of American
constitutional government.
Teacher Notes:
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Create a timeline of select historical events and the amendments
resulting from those events. (1, 3)
Assume the role of Abraham Lincoln. Write a persuasive essay
supporting the maintenance of the Union. Trade essays with
another classmate who has written from the perspective of Jefferson
Davis. Write a response to Davis. (2)
Create a flow chart of how amendments are added to the United
States Constitution. (3)
Use a Venn diagram comparing The Declaration of Independence to
the Preamble of the Constitution. Identify the essential ideas
inherent in both documents. (4)
Resource: Center for Civic/We the People/Project Citizen
http://www.civiced.org. (1, 2, 3, 4)
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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Civics-Government
Eighth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) compares the popular vote with the Electoral College as a
means to elect government officials.
2. (A) researches and analyzes a current issue involving rights from
an historical perspective (e.g., civil rights, native Americans,
organized labor).
Teacher Notes:
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Simulate the popular vote and Electoral College to vote for student
council officers. (1)
 Discuss the election results of 1824 (Jackson vs. Adams); 1876
(Tilden vs. Hays); 1888 (Harrison vs. Cleveland). What do these
elections results have in common? (1)
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
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Civics-Government
Eighth Grade
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines government responses to international affairs from an
historical perspective (e.g., immigration, Spanish-American war,).
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Take opposing viewpoints and discuss a foreign-related topic:
Should the United States participate in foreign wars? Should we limit
immigration? When is it appropriate to do so? Who should make
such rules? (1)
Teacher Notes:
Immigration - to enter and settle in a country to which one is not native.
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Economics
Eighth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) analyzes the effect of scarcity on the price, production,
consumption and distribution of goods and services (e.g., price
goes up and production goes down, consumption goes down and
distribution is limited).
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Write newspaper articles on the scarcity of manufactured goods in
the South during and after the Civil War. (1) See also: GB1I2,
GB5I1, HB1I5, HB4I1, HB4I2
 Write diary entries telling about the availability and price of food
items along the Oregon Trail. (1) See also: GB1I2, GB2I1, GB2I2,
GB5I1
 Using current events discuss with the class how scarcity affects the
prices of certain items (seasonal produce supply in stores—
tomatoes, oranges, grapes; seasonal clothing – sales at the end of
the season; war – labor force, disasters – building supplies, etc) (1)
See also: GB5I1
Teacher Notes:
Consumption - the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Scarcity - not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
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Economics
Eighth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) explains how relative price, people’s economic decisions, and
innovations influence the market system (e.g., cotton gin led to
increased productivity, more cotton produced, higher profits, and
lower prices; steamboat led to increased distribution of goods,
which brought down prices of goods and allowed goods to be more
affordable to people across the United States; development of
railroad led to transportation of cattle to eastern markets, price was
decreased and profit was increased, timely access to beef).
2. (K) - ($) describes the four basic types of earned income (e.g.,
wages and salaries, rent, interests, and profit).
3. (K) - ($) explains the factors that cause unemployment (e.g.,
seasonal demand for jobs, changes in skills needed by employers,
other economic influences, downsizing, outsourcing).
4.▲(K) - ($) describes the positive and negative incentives to which
employees respond (e.g., wage levels, benefits, work hours,
working conditions).
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Using either the cotton gin, steamboat, or railroad industry, create a
three-column chart labeled: “Impact on Society,” “Impact on
Prices,” and “Impact on Other Industries.” Fill in chart after
researching areas. (1)
Research an 1800’s invention and report on the effect of that
invention on productivity, prices, etc. (1) See also: GB5I1
Write a letter to the editor, or to a congressperson identifying
factors of unemployment in the area. Suggest possible solutions to
one of these areas. (3)
Make a cause and effect chart showing factors affecting
unemployment. (3) See also: C-GB3I3
Interview an adult to find out positive and negative incentives of
their jobs. (4)
Research unemployment data for the state. Develop rationale for
the periods of low employment. (3)
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Incentives - something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, which induces action or motivates effort.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Interest - a charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned.
Market - exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
Outsourcing - paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Productivity - a measure of goods and services produced over a period of time with a given set of resources.
Profit - after producing and selling a good or service, profit is the difference between revenue and cost of production. If costs are greater than revenue, profit is
negative (there is a loss).
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Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Economics
Eighth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes examples of specialized economic institutions found in
market economies (e.g., corporations, partnerships, proprietorships,
labor unions, banks, and non-profit organizations).
Teacher Notes:
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Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
Collect and categorize newspapers, magazines or Internet articles
of various economic institutions. Use articles to summarize and
define the characteristics and trends of each institution. (1)
Market economy - a system in which buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and distribution, based on supply and demand.
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Economics
Eighth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
The student::
1. (K) gives examples of how monopolies affect consumers, the prices
of goods, laborers, and their wages (e.g., monopolistic employers
and development of labor unions; oil, steel, and railroad
monopolies; anti-trust laws).
 Research tycoons Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Write
a paragraph comparing and contrasting them. Discuss why they
were called “Robber Barons”. (1)
 Analyze political cartoons to examine public sentiment on
monopolies, unions, and anti-trust laws. (1) See also: HB1I6, HB3I5
 Participate in two mock markets: one with a monopoly and one with
competition. Describe positive and negative incentives in each
market. (1)
Teacher Notes:
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Economics
Eighth Grade
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) explains how saving accumulation is influenced by the
amount saved, the rate of return and time.
2. (A) - ($) determines the opportunity cost of decisions related to a
personal finance plan or budget.
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Create a table or chart comparing the features of different types of
savings instruments: savings account, certificate of deposit, money
market accounts, and savings bonds. (1, 2)
Assume that ten dollars is deposited into two different savings
accounts each month for a period of one year. Calculate the
amount of interest received for each account assuming that one
account earns simple interest and the other earns compound
interest. (1, 2)
Choose an item to buy, such as a $200 stereo. Determine the
length of payment time under each of the following scenario:
Paying a set amount each month (such as $40) how long does it
take to pay off if the interest rate on a credit card is 9 percent? (3, 4)
Keep track of personal expenses for one week. Use expenses to
plan a budget for future weeks. (3, 4)
Teacher Notes:
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
Credit - an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
Interest - a charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned.
Interest rate - the price of money that is borrowed or saved, determined by the forces of supply and demand.
Opportunity cost - in making a decision, the most valuable alternative not chosen.
Savings - income that is not spent, setting aside income or money for future use.
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Geography
Eighth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) locates major political and physical features of Earth from
memory and describes the relative location of those features (e.g.,
Atlanta, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Columbia River,
St. Louis, Rio Grande, Black Hills, Continental Divide).
2. (A) creates maps, graphs, charts, databases and/or models to
support historical research.
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Write descriptions for the physical and political features studied in
history on index cards. Pair up with a peer and trade cards. Try to
determine the political and physical features being described. Use
the descriptions as clues. (1)
 Use data and a variety of symbols and colors to create thematic
maps and graphs of various aspects related to their historical
research. (2) See also: HB1I5, HB2I3
 Use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to create
maps showing cities with access to railroads during a certain era.
Access the data on-line. Add the information to the on-line base
map. Analyze the maps created to note any patterns. Overlay the
maps with additional GIS data showing railroad service during a later
era and during the present. Add information about the growth or
shrinkage of specified cities in each of the eras. Overlay each map
with highway access, and compare. Write conclusions resulting from
the analysis. Sources for GIS data include the Kansas Data Access
and Support Center, in conjunction with the Kansas Geological
Survey at the University of Kansas: http://gisdasc.kgs.ukans.edu. (1,
2) See also: HB1I5
Teacher Notes:
Database - a compilation, structuring, and categorization of information for analysis and interpretation.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Geographic Information System (GIS) - a computerized geographic database that contains information about the spatial distribution of physical and human
characteristics of Earth’s surface.
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
Relative location - the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Thematic map - a map representing a specific theme, topic, or spatial distribution (cattle production, climates).
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Geography
Eighth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) identifies and explain the changing criteria that can be used to
define a region (e.g., North, South, Border States, Northwest
Territory).
2. (A) explain why labels are put on regions to create an identity (e.g.,
Coal/Iron/Rust Belt, North-Yankee/ South-Dixie).
Teacher Notes:
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a phone directory to identify businesses that have applied
regional labels to their names: Midwest Energy, Kaw Valley
Nurseries. (1, 2)
 Identify and explain the origin of local regional labels. (2)
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
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Geography
Eighth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
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Geography
Eighth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) evaluates demographic data to analyze population
characteristics in the United States over time (e.g., birth/death
rates, population growth rates, migration patterns: rural, urban).
2.▲(A) analyzes push-pull factors including economic, political, and
social factors that contribute to human migration and settlement in
United States (e.g., economic: availability of natural resources, job
opportunities created by technology; political: Jim Crow laws, freestaters; social factors: religious, ethnic discrimination).
3. (K) compares cultural elements that created the distinctive cultural
landscapes during the Civil War (e.g., technology, crops, housing
types, agricultural methods, settlement patterns).
4. (K) identifies the geographic factors that influenced United Statesworld interdependence in the 19th century (e.g., location advantage,
resource distribution, labor cost, technology, trade networks).
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Make population pyramids for different periods in the United States.
Compare the proportion of the population in various age groups and
discuss implications for government and business. (1) See also:
HB3I2, CGB5I1
Interview immigrants or descendants of immigrants in the community
to find out where they or their ancestors came from and why.
Prepare a bar or circle graph showing the reasons for immigrating
and a map showing each immigrant’s place of origin. (2) See also:
HB3I2, CGB5I1
Create murals depicting the cultural landscapes of the Northern and
Southern States during the Civil War. (3)
Compare and contrast the major centers of manufacturing in the
North and the South during the Civil War. Provide rationale for
comparative advantages the South had for producing cotton. (4)
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Comparative advantage - when one individual or nation has an efficiency advantage over another individual or nation with two separate products but has a greater
advantage in one product than in the other. The efficient producer has a comparative advantage for the product in which he or it has greater relative efficiency.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Cultural landscape -the surface of the earth as modified by human action, including housing types, settlement patterns, and agricultural use.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Interdependence - people relying on each other in different places or in the same place for ideas, goods, and services.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Immigrant - a person (migrating into) coming to a particular country or area to live.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
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Population pyramid - a bar graph showing the distribution by gender and age of the population of a country or other political entity.
Push-pull factors - in migration theory, the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that drive or draw people away from their previous location, often
simultaneously.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Geography
Eighth Grade
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines how human beings removed barriers to settlement by
moving needed resources across the United States
Teacher Notes:
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Research the relationship of railroads to the development of the
Great Plains. (1) See also: HB3I2, EB1I1, EB2I1
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Eighth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, group, ideas, developments,
and turning points in the early years of the United States.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the major compromises made to create the
Constitution (e.g., Three-Fifth’s Compromise, Great Compromise,
Bill of Rights).
2. (K) describes how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and
Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political
parties (e.g., Alien and Sedition Act, National Bank, view on foreign
policy).
3. (A) describes the impact of the War of 1812 (e.g., nationalism,
political parties, foreign relations).
4. ▲(A) explains the impact of constitutional interpretation during the era
(e.g., Alien and Sedition Act, Louisiana Purchase, Marshall Court Marbury vs. Madison, McCullough vs. Maryland (1819)).
5. ▲(A) analyzes how territorial expansion of the United States affected
relations with external powers and American Indians (e.g.,
Louisiana Purchase, concept of Manifest Destiny, previous land
policies-Northwest Ordinance, Mexican-American War, Gold Rush).
6. ▲(A) explains how the Industrial Revolution and technological
developments impacted different parts of American society (e.g.,
interchangeable parts, cotton gin, railroads, steamboats, canals).
7. (K) defines and gives examples of issues during Andrew Jackson’s
presidency (e.g., expansion of suffrage, appeal to the common
man, justification of spoils system, opposition to elitism, opposition
to Bank of the U.S., Indian Removal of 1830).
8. (K) analyzes the development of nativism as a reaction to waves of
Irish and German immigrants.
9. (A) explains the impact on American society of religious, social, and
philosophical reform movements of the early 19th century (e.g.,
abolition, education, mental health, women’s rights, temperance).
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 Write a newspaper editorial for constituents from the perspective of
their delegate that evaluates whether or not the compromises in the
constitution resolved the issues they addressed (for example, Henry
Clay). (1)
 Write a persuasive paper explaining whether or not the development
of political parties was good for the United States. Include both the
positive and negative results of the political parties, alternatives to
political parties and the party platforms.
 Use a graphic organizer showing the impact of the War of 1812 on
nationalism, political parties and foreign relations. (3)
 Write a script for a debate that explains the impact of constitutional
interpretation of the following: Alien and Sedition Act, Louisiana
Purchase, Marshall Court: Marbury vs. Madison (1810), McCulloch
vs. Maryland (1819). Determine if these decisions strengthened the
role of the Court. (4)
 Compare and contrast the perspective of an American Indian leader
in the early 1800’s and a government official regarding territorial
expansion including the following events: Louisiana Purchase,
Manifest Destiny, Northwest Ordinance, Gold Rush. Include how
these events impacted relations between the two groups—the
Court’s/government’s response to American Indian rights and
American Indian response to government removal. (5)
 Compare and contrast the impact of the Industrial Revolution on
different parts of the country (North, South, and Midwest) from
various perspectives of workers, families, urban, rural, etc. (6)
 Debate the following: “Technological changes have always had a
positive impact on society.” Use the innovations of the time period as
basis of debate. (6)
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Teacher Notes:
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Movement - the interaction of people, goods, ideas, or natural phenomena from different places.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Eighth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and the causes and effects of the Civil War.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains the issues of nationalism and sectionalism (e.g.,
expansion of slavery, tariffs, westward expansion, internal
improvements, nullification).
2. (A) discusses the impact of constitutional interpretation during the
era (e.g., Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Lincoln’s
suspension of Habeas Corpus).
3.▲(K) retraces events that led to sectionalism and secession prior to
the Civil War (e.g., Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850,
Kansas-Nebraska Act-Popular Sovereignty, Uncle Tom’s Cabin).
4. (A) explains the issues that led to the Civil War (e.g., slavery,
economics, and state’s rights).
5.▲(K) describes the turning points of the Civil War (e.g., Antietam,
Gettysburg, Emancipation Proclamation, and Sherman’s March to
the Sea).
6. (A) compares and contrasts various points of views during the Civil
War era (e.g., abolitionists vs. slaveholders, Robert E. Lee vs.
Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis, and
Harriett Beecher Stowe vs. Mary Chestnut).
7. (A) compares and contrasts different plans for Reconstruction (e.g.,
plans advocated by President Lincoln, congressional leaders,
President Johnson).
8. (K) discusses the impeachment and trial of President Andrew
Johnson (e.g., constitutional powers and Edmund G. Ross).
9.▲(A) analyzes the impact of the end of slavery on African Americans
(e.g., Black Codes; sharecropping; Jim Crow; Amendments 13, 14,
and 15; Frederick Douglass; Ku Klux Klan; Exodusters).
Teacher Notes:
Eighth Grade Instructional Suggestions
 Use a compare and contrast chart to explain the difference in
viewpoints of Northerners and Southerners regarding the
Compromise of 1850 and/or any other event that led to sectionalism
and eventually secession prior to the Civil War. (1, 3)
 Find evidence to support or negate the following statement:
“If the North had not wanted to abolish slavery, then the Civil War
would not have occurred.” (1, 3)
 Create a timeline listing the following events: Antietam, Gettysburg,
Emancipation Proclamation, and Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Include a description of why each event was a turning point in the
Civil War. (5)
 Use a graphic organizer comparing each reconstruction plan. Include
the goals of each, the events and issues that lead to each plan, and
the African-American response to each plan. Determine if the goals
were met for the plan undertaken. (7)
 Take on a role as a senator during the impeachment of President
Johnson. How would you vote and why? (8)
 Compare the antebellum South to the New South regarding
economics, racial attitudes, and political power. Conclude if each
category changed or stayed the same. (9)
Constitutional powers - (See expressed powers)
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Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Sovereignty - ultimate, supreme power in a state; in the United States, sovereignty rests with the people.
Tariff - a tax imposed on imported goods.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Eighth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, events, eras,
and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and turning points in the era of the
Industrial era.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) interprets the impact of the romance of the west on American
culture (e.g., Frederick Jackson Turner, western literature, Buffalo
Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, Frederick Remington, the cowboy).
2.▲(K) explains the impact of the railroad on the settlement and
development of the West (e.g., transcontinental railroad, cattle
towns, Fred Harvey, town speculation, railroad land, immigrant
agents).
3. (K) describes federal American Indian policy after the Civil War
(e.g., Dawes Act, boarding schools, forced assimilation).
4. (K) explains American Indians’ reactions to encroachment on their
lands and the government response (e.g., Chief Joseph, Helen
Hunt Jackson, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Sand Creek,
Washita, Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee).
5. (K) explains how the rise of big business, heavy industry, and
mechanized farming transformed American society.
6. (A) interprets data from primary sources to describe the
experiences of immigrants and native-born Americans of the late
19th century.
7. (A) compares and contrasts the experiences of immigrants in urban
versus rural settings.
Teacher Notes:
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Use primary source information to contrast the realities of the west to
popular stereotypes about the west. (1)
Write a newspaper editorial explaining the benefits of the railroad in
helping to settle and develop the west. Use specific evidence from
history to support the argument for the railroad. Respond to negative
views regarding the growth of the railroad by maintaining support for
your position. (2)
Use primary or secondary resources from the era to defend a
position on what mistakes both sides made in dealing with each
other: Federal Government and American Indians. (3, 4)
Use photographs of immigrants to support or disprove the statement:
“Americans welcomed immigrants with open arms when they
arrived”. (6)
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Immigrant - a person (migrating into) coming to a particular country or area to live.
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Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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Kansas, United States, and World History
Eighth Grade
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
Eighth Grade Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines a topic in United States history to analyze changes
over time and makes logical inferences concerning cause and
effect.
2. (A) examines a variety of different types of primary sources in
United States history and analyzes them in terms of credibility,
purpose, and point of view (e.g., census records, diaries,
photographs, letters, government documents).
3. (A) uses at least three primary sources to interpret a person or
event from United States history to develop a historical narrative.
4.▲(A) compares contrasting descriptions of the same event in United
States history to understand how people differ in their
interpretations of historical events.
Teacher Notes:
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Develop a timeline showing innovations in technology related to
transportation, communication, or industry in the late 1800’s.
Include above the timeline details about the innovations and below
the timeline write a brief statement regarding the impact of the
innovation on American society. (1)
Use photographs or letters from the Civil War era to determine the
point of view of various groups toward the war. (2, 3)
Use primary source documents to develop a historical narrative of
one of the Native American leaders that examines their viewpoint
regarding expansion. (1, 2, 3, 4) Resource:
http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/index.html.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Civics-Government
High School
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 1:
The student understands the rule of law as it applies to individuals; family; school; local, state and
national governments.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) evaluates the purposes and function of law.
2.▲(A) analyzes how the rule of law can be used to protect the rights of
individuals and to promote the common good (e.g., eminent
domain, martial law during disasters, health and safety issues).
3. (K) defines civic life, politics, and governments.
4. (K) recognizes contracts may be verbal or legal agreements and
are binding.
5. (A) defines and illustrates examples of torts (e.g., wrongful death,
medical malpractice, defamation, personal injury, dignitary harms
against a person, such as bodily injury or civil rights violations).
6. (A) defines and illustrates examples of misdemeanors and felonies
(e.g. misdemeanors: traffic violation, small theft, trespassing;
felonies: murder, sexual assault, large theft).
7. (K) explains Kansas court structure (e.g., Municipal Courts, District
Courts, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court).
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Research current laws that impact students, such as:
driving restrictions, liquor laws, drug laws, seat belt mandates. (1)
See also: EB1I4 Resource: www.kscourts.org
Research court cases that overrule government action to protect
individual rights. (Example: Research court cases that interpret the
Bill of Rights through the 14th amendment. Any 4th Amendment
search and seizure case or a “Miranda” case would work well.) (2)
See also: US B3I7
Research rules that protect the public health and safety always
produce trade-offs, such as: regulations concerning OSHA or the
EPA, or eminent domain to widen a city street. (1, 2) See also:
EB1I4
You and the Courts of Kansas. Research cases that have been tried
in various levels of court. (7) See also: US B3I7
web resource: You and the Courts of Kansas (also available in
Spanish)
Read On Your Own. Explain basic legal duties upon graduation from
high school. (1, 6) web resource: On Your Own (also available in
Spanish)
Teacher Notes:
Common good - for the benefit or interest of a politically organized society as a whole.
Eminent domain - (1) the right of a sovereign state to appropriate all or part of any property for necessary public use, making reasonable compensation. (2) The
right in international law for one nation to appropriate the territory or property of another for self protection.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Rule of law - principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law.
Trade-off - getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another.
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Civics-Government
High School
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 2: The student understands the shared ideals and diversity of American society and political culture.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) recognizes that a nation’s values are embodied in the
Constitution, statutes, and important court cases (e.g., Dred Scott
vs. Sanford, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Education of
Topeka).
2.▲(K) understands core civic values inherent in the United States
Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence that
have been the foundation for unity in American society (e.g., right to
free speech, religion, press, assembly; equality; human dignity;
civic responsibility, sovereignty of the people).
3. (A) examines the fundamental values and principles of the
American political tradition as expressed in historic documents,
speeches and events, and ways in which these values and
principles conflict (e.g., equal opportunity and fairness vs.
affirmative action).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Brainstorm a list of fundamental values held by people in the United
States. Identify specific values and research the conflicts that
inherently develop between people by reading a variety of
documents from legal cases. Possible cases to examine might
include issues related to civil liberties and the relocation of
Japanese-Americans: the case of Korematsu vs. United States; the
conflict between a fair trial and freedom of the press: Sheppard vs.
Maxwell. (1, 2, 3) web resource:
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/policy/legal_docs/legal_briefs.php
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/policy/court_decisions.php
 Website for Korematsu vs. United States:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/65.htm
Website for Sheppard vs. Maxwell:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/sheppard.html
 Resource: We the People: http://www.civiced.org/index.php (1, 2, 3)
Affirmative action - any of a wide range of programs aimed at expanding opportunities for women and minorities.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Equal opportunity - the idea that each person is guaranteed the same chance to succeed in life.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
Sovereignty of the People - ultimate authority are held by people of the United States
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Civics-Government
High School
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 3: The student understands how the United States Constitution allocates power and responsibility in the
government.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) describes the purposes, organization, and functions of the three
branches of government and independent regulatory agencies in
relation to the United States Constitution.
2.▲(K) explains Constitutional powers (e.g., ▲expressed/enumerated,
▲implied, inherent, ▲reserved, concurrent).
3. (K) discusses that the United States Constitution has been able to
sustain American government over time by the ability of the people
to amend the document.
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Review the basic purposes and functions of the three branches of
government. Research one of the ten independent regulatory
agencies to determine its roles and functions. List and label each of
the roles or functions as to whether it is primarily executive, judicial,
or legislative in nature. (1) See also: EB2I7, B4I4
As the students read the Constitution, define “checks and balances”
and identify those provisions in the document. (1)
Read the Constitution to identify the Constitutional powers of the
national government. Create a four-column chart for each
Constitutional power and responsibility. Develop definitions and
frame under each. (2) See also: US History B1I8, B1I10, B3I7
Resource: We the People: http://www.civiced.org/index.php
(1, 2, 3)
Teacher Notes:
Concurrent powers- powers shared by both the federal and state government (for example, levying taxes, borrowing money, and spending for the general welfare).
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Constitutional powers - (See expressed powers)
Expressed powers - the powers explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution (enumerated powers are the same as constitutional powers or expressed
powers).
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Implied powers - powers assumed by government that are not specifically listed in the Constitution.
Inherent powers - those delegated powers of the constitution that are assumed to belong to the national government because it is a sovereign state.
Reserved powers - powers that are not specifically granted or denied to the federal government are reserved to the states.
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Civics-Government
High School
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active
civic participant.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) examines the role of political parties in channeling public
opinion, allowing people to act jointly, nominating candidates,
conducting campaigns, and training future leaders.
2. (K) explains how public policy is formed and carried out at local,
state, and national levels and what roles individuals and groups can
play in the process.
3. (A) analyzes policies, actions, and issues regarding the rights of
individuals to equal protection under the law.
4. (A) examines issues regarding political rights (e.g., to be an
informed voter, participate in the political process, assume
leadership roles).
5. (K) understands that civil disobedience is a form of protest and if
taken to extreme, punishable by law.
6. (A) analyzes issues regarding economic freedoms within the United
States (e.g., free enterprise, rights of individual choice, government
regulation).
7. (K) explores issues regarding civic responsibilities of American
citizens (e.g., obeying the law, paying taxes, voting, jury duty,
serving our country, providing leadership, involvement in the
political process).
8. (A) examines the role of interest groups and their impact on
governmental policy.
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Using local, state, or national examples, discuss the differences
between a political party and an interest group. (1, 2, 8) See also:
US History B3I9
Participate in election simulation involving two politic parties and a
Political Action Committee (PAC). Develop a platform created
around three major issues, one of them being a personal rights issue.
Debate the issues. Students in the PAC will formulate their own
agenda on one issue and attempt to influence parties. Hold a mock
election. (1-4, 7, 8) See also: KS History B1I1
Identify the types of third parties: single-issue, ideological, economic
protest, and splinter parties. Discuss the important role played by
third parties, as spoiler, innovator, and critic. Review the platform of
the Populist Party of the 1890’s in Kansas. They were considered
“extreme”, but most of their proposals have been adopted – child
labor laws, minimum wage, maximum work week, regulation of the
railroads and banks, old age pensions, direct election of senators,
etc.) (1, 2, 7, 8) See also: KS History B1I1, B1I3, US History B1I3,
B1I5
Research an interest group with local ties (farming, education,
elderly, etc) and determine what political action would benefit them
and what the trade-offs might be. (1, 2, 8) See also: KS History B3I4,
EB1I3, EB1I4
Read “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., and discuss civil disobedience. (3, 5) web resource:
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
Read Juror—Your Rights and Duties. (7) web resource: Juror—Your
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Teacher Notes:
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Trade-off - getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another.
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Civics-Government
High School
Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of
Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the
rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active
participants in our representative democracy.
Benchmark 5: The student understands various systems of governments and how nations and international
organizations interact.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) compares various governmental systems with that of the United
States government in terms of sovereignty, structure, function,
decision-making processes, citizenship roles, and political culture
and ideology (e.g., systems: constitutional monarchy, parliamentary
democracy, dictatorship, totalitarianism; ideology: fascism,
socialism, communism).
2. (K) discusses the structure of international relations both regional
and world-wide (e.g., trade, economic and defense alliances,
regional security).
3.▲(A) examines the purpose and functions of multi-national
organizations (e.g., United Nations, NATO, International Red
Cross).
4. explains the changing roles of the United States Government in the
international community (e.g., treaties, NATO, UN, exploitative,
altruistic, benign).
5. (A) examines a position concerning the use of various tools in
carrying out United States foreign policy (e.g., trade sanctions,
extension of the “most favored nation” status, military interventions).
6. (A) examines the issues of social justice and human rights as
expressed in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
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Make a three-column chart comparing capitalism, socialism, and
communism. (1) See also: US History B3I1, B3I2; EB3I2
Compare and contrast the “United Nations Declaration of Human
Rights” with our Bill of Rights and analyze our assumptions about
individual liberty. (6) See also: US History B3I7, US History B4I3,
B4I4, B4I5, EB4I1
Brainstorm what might be needed by a community that has been
devastated by a natural disaster. Research the reactions of various
multi-national organizations to the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in
2004. Create a flow chart that demonstrates how each organization
met the various needs created by that disaster. Discuss how the
organizations’ efforts support and/or duplicate each other. (3) See
also: US History B4I1, B4I3; EB1I1, EB1I2, EB1I3, EB1I4, EB4I1
web resource:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html and
http://www.katw.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=103
Define imperialism and discuss its many forms, with particular
emphasis on military, political, and economic imperialism. Research
United States policies in “hot spots” around the world. (4) See also:
US History B1I4, B3I1, B3I2, B3I3, B3I4, B3I8, B4I1; EB1I4, EB2I1,
EB2I2, EB3I3, EB3I4, EB3I5
Analyze the effects of the Tsunami in Southeast Asia. Evaluate the
roles of various multi-national organizations in response. (3)
Teacher Notes:
Capitalism - an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads) and their operation
for profit, under competitive conditions.
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
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Communism - a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of goods, and social
classes and private ownership are discouraged.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Constitutional monarchy - monarchy in which the powers of the monarch are restricted by a constitution.
Democracy - form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative.
Dictatorship - a government system controlled by one ruler who has absolute power and usually controlled by force.
Fascism - a system of government characterized by strong nationalist, racist, and military policies, ruled by a dictator, with a centralized control of the basic means
of production.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Imperialism - the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
Parliamentary - a system of government in which the chief executive is the leader whose party holds the most seats in the legislature after an election or whose
party forms a major part of the ruling coalition.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Socialism - a political and economic system in which government controls resources and industries.
Sovereignty - ultimate, supreme power in a state; in the United States, sovereignty rests with the people.
Totalitarianism- a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights- an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
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Economics
High School
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 1: The student understands how limited resources require choices.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) explains how economic systems affect the allocation of scarce
resources (e.g., monarchies, financing explorers, mercantilism, rise
of capitalism).
2.▲(K) explains how economic choices made by societies have
intended and unintended consequences. (e.g., mercantilism,
“planned economy” under Soviet Union, Adam Smith-Invisible
hand/Laissez Faire).
3. (K) explains how people respond to incentives in order to allocate
scarce resources (e.g., government subsidies/farm production,
rationing coupons/WWII, emission regulations, profits/war
production, women/WWII workforce).
4. (K) explains how economic choices made by individuals,
businesses, or governments often have intended and unintended
consequences (e.g., individual: build a house in a flood plain;
business: car, need for roads, railroads, ecosystems; government:
isolationism at beginning of WWI, Prohibition Act, Space Race,
building of atomic bomb).
High School Instructional Suggestions
 On a Venn diagram compare the allocation of resources between the
countries in Europe and Japan during the Global Age of Exploration.
(1) See also: WHB1I3, WHB1I7
 Chart the consequences of the Five-Year Plan (planned economy)
under the Soviet Union. (2) See also: WHB3I3
 Role play a merchant during either the Age of Mercantilism (15001800), in industrial era Great Britain, or the Soviet Union in the
1950s. Write a journal entry that describes the day, including how
decisions were made about what was to be sold in a store, the role
of government in business, your plans for the future of the business,
and the results of a day at work, both for owner and customers. (2)
See also: WHB1I3, WHB2I4, WHB2I7, WHB3I3
 Discuss tax break incentives for people purchasing the new hybrid
cars. Are the incentives worth the higher prices for the vehicles?
Discuss other incentives, past and present. (3) See also: USB3I9,
USB4I2, USB4I3, WHB4I5, GB5I1, GB5I3
 Examine the invention of the automobile and its effects on the
environment (e.g. roads, pollution, junk yards, etc.). (4) See also:
USB3I9, USB4I2, USB4I3, WHB4I5, GB5I1, GB5I3
Teacher Notes:
Allocation - the distribution of resources, goods, or services.
Capitalism - an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads) and their operation
for profit, under competitive conditions.
Economic system - establishes how a country produces and distributes goods and services.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Incentives - something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, which induces action or motivates effort.
Isolationism - a national policy by which a country does not become involved with other nations in agreements and/or alliances.
Mercantilism - an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
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foreign trading monopolies.
Monarchy - governed by a monarch (king, queen, emperor, empress).
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Profit - after producing and selling a good or service, profit is the difference between revenue and cost of production. If costs are greater than revenue, profit is
negative (there is a loss).
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
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Economics
High School
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 2: The student understands how the market economy works in the United States.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) defines Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and indicates the
components that make up our nation’s GDP (e.g., consumption,
investment, government, and net exports).
2. (K) explains the factors that have contributed to United States
economic growth (e.g., increasing education and literacy, health
care advances, technology developments).
3. (K) explains the principles of demand and supply (e.g., laws,
equilibrium, change in quantity vs. change in demand and supply).
4.▲(K) explains the factors that could change supply of or demand for
a product (e.g., societal values: prohibition of alcohol; scarcity of
resources: war; technology: assembly line production).
5. (A) analyzes how changes in prices affect consumer behavior and
sometimes result in government actions (e.g., WWII-rationing, fuel,
metals, nylon; Arab oil embargo of 1974; droughts (Ag products),
changes in consumer preferences—fads, health information).
6. (K) describes what happens to the product price and output of
businesses when the degree of competition changes in an industry
(e.g., oil, steel, automobiles (1970s), railroads in late 1800’s and
early 1900’s, AT&T, Microsoft, Trusts of 1920’s & 1930’s).
7. (A) analyzes the role of central banks and the Federal Reserve
System in the economy of the United States (e.g., interest rates,
monetary policy, government bonds).
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Use the Internet to research technology developments that have
helped the economy grow. Design a flow chart showing how that
technology affected the economy.(2) See also: GB5I1; USB1I1,
USB1I9, USB4I2, USB5I1, WHB2I4, WHB2I5, WHB2I6, WHB4I6,
WHB5I1
 Analyze primary source documents to determine the effects of
various factors on the supply or demand for a product. (4) See also:
USB1I9, USB1I10, USB2I6
Societal values: prohibition of alcohol: web resource:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/volstead_act/volstead_ac
t.html
Scarcity of resources: war web resource:
http://www.archives.gov/facilities/ca/laguna_niguel/workbook/ww2_opa_records.
html
Technology: assembly line production web resource:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/teachers/tgontheline.html
 Use a bar graph to represent the falling price of computers with
many competing companies. Compare it to a bar graph of the price
for software (e.g. Microsoft Windows XP). What is the difference and
why? (6) See also: CB4I6; USB4I2, USB4I4
 Go to www.federalreserve.gov. Find answers to questions about
Federal Reserve. What does the Fed do? Then discuss how Fed
sets monetary policy and why they change interest rates.
 Discuss why the Federal Reserve sets interest rates and sets
monetary policy. (7) web resource: www.federalreserve.gov.
Teacher Notes:
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Consumption - the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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Embargo - government restriction placed on trade.
Equilibrium point (Equilibrium Price) - the price at which quantity supplied equals quantity demanded.
Exports - goods and services produced in one nation and sold to buyers in another nation.
Federal Reserve System - the independent central bank of the United States that controls the money supply.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - the total market value of all final goods and services produced in the economy in a given year.
Interest rate - the price of money that is borrowed or saved, determined by the forces of supply and demand.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of consumers and
producers.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Scarcity - not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Economics
High School
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 3: The student analyzes how different incentives, economic systems and their institutions, and local,
national, and international interdependence affect people.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) compares the benefits and costs of different allocation methods
(e.g., first come, first serve; prices, contests, lottery, majority rule).
2.▲(A) compares characteristics of traditional command, market, and
mixed economies on the basis of property rights, factors of
production and locus of economic decision making (e.g., what, how,
for whom).
3. (A) uses comparative advantage to explain the benefits of trade
among nations (e.g., nations can benefit from free trade while
reducing or eliminating production of a good in which it is
technologically superior at producing; to benefit from specialization
and free trade, one nation should specialize and trade the good in
which it is “most best” at producing, while the other nation should
specialize and trade the good in which it is “least best” at producing;
benefits include more product selection, lower prices, higher wages
in both nations).
4. (A) outlines the cost and benefits of free trade or restricted trade
policies in world history (e.g., restrictions of trade under
mercantilism, regional trade agreements, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
of 1930, General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT), World
Trade Organization (WTO)).
5. (K) explains how a change in exchange rates affects the flow of
trade between nations and a nation’s domestic economy (e.g.,
using historical examples such as development of the Euro,
devaluation of the United States dollar in the early 1970s, &
currency boards in the transitional economies of Eastern Europe).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Brainstorm possible allocation methods for seats at a top movie or
concert. Conduct a survey of preferred methods. Make a bar graph
of survey results. (1)
 Create a chart that answers the questions what, how and for whom
for each of the four economics. Include who makes the choices for
the allocation of resources. (2) See also: USB2I2, USB2I3, WHB2I7
 Use a Venn diagram to compare any aspect of trade, comparing past
to present. (3) See also: WHB1I3, WHB1I6, WHB1I7, WHB2I4,
WHB2I6, WHB2I9, WHB4I3, WHB4I4, WHB4I5; GB1I2, GB4I3,
GB4I5; CB5I2
 List the costs and benefits of free trade and restricted trade on
charts. (4) See also: USB4I4; WHB1I3, WHB1I7, WHB2I6,
WHB3I5, WHB4I4, WHB4I5; GB2I1, GB2I4, GB4I5
 Compare the affordability of a trip to a foreign country by researching
the exchange rate for two countries. Using a set amount of United
States dollars for the trip, determine which trip would be more
affordable. (5) See also: GB1I1, GB1I3, GB2I5
Allocation - the distribution of resources, goods, or services.
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
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Comparative advantage - when one individual or nation has an efficiency advantage over another individual or nation with two separate products but has a greater
advantage in one product than in the other. The efficient producer has a comparative advantage for the product in which he or it has greater relative efficiency.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Exchange rate - the price of one currency in relation to another currency.
Mercantilism - an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
foreign trading monopolies.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Specialization - people who work in jobs where they produce a few special goods and services.
Tariff - a tax imposed on imported goods.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Economics
High School
Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 4: The student analyzes the role of the government in the economy.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) explains why certain goods and services are provided by the
government (e.g., infrastructure, schools, waste management,
national defense, parks, environmental protection).
2. (A) explains the advantages and disadvantages of the use of fiscal
policy by the Federal Government to influence the United States
economy (e.g., change in taxes & spending to expand or contract
the economy, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, George
W. Bush’s tax cuts, Gerald Ford’s WIN program).
3. (K) distinguishes between government debt and government
budget deficit.
4.▲(A) evaluates the costs and benefits of governmental economic and
social policies on society (e.g., minimum wage laws, anti-trust laws,
EPA Regulations, Social Security, farm subsidies, international
sanctions on agriculture, Medicare, unemployment insurance,
corporate tax credits, public work projects).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Research goods and services provided by the government, choose
one and report on why the government is involved. (1) See also:
CB5I1
 Brainstorm and make a class chart listing advantages and
disadvantages of fiscal policy. (2) See also: KB2I2, KB2I3, KB3I4,
USB2I2, USB2I3, USB3I5, USB4I4
 Define government debt and government budget deficit and explain
the difference. (3)
 Discuss the intentions of the Social Security System and the costs
and benefits of such a program. (4) See also: USB2I2, USB4I3
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Debt - the accumulated negative balance.
Deficit - a negative balance after expenditures are subtracted from revenues for a specific time period.
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Fiscal policy - the use of federal government spending, taxing, and debt management to influence general economic activity.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Infrastructure - the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Economics
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Economics Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of major economic concepts, issues, and
systems applying decision-making skills as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen of Kansas and the United
States living in an interdependent world.
Benchmark 5: The student makes effective decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) - ($) describes how various jobs and employment are impacted
by changes in the economy.
2. (K) - ($) illustrates how the demand for labor is influenced by
productivity of labor and explains the factors that influence labor
productivity (e.g., education, experience, health, nutrition,
technology).
3.▲(A) - ($) explains how the demand for and supply of labor are
influenced by productivity, education, skills, retraining, and wage
rates (e.g., spinning mills and the beginning of the modern factory
system, the increased use of machinery throughout the Industrial
Revolution, assembly lines).
4. (A) - ($) develops a personal budget that identifies sources of
income and expenditures (e.g., wages, rent payments, savings,
taxes, insurance).
5. (K) - ($) determines the costs and benefits of using credit.
6.▲(A) - ($) analyzes the costs and benefits of investment alternatives
(e.g., stock market, bonds, real estate).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Examine the influence of various factors on supply and demand
through Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives. (2)
web resource:
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM562&page=teacher
 Keep track of income and expenses for one week. Create a
personal budget using data.
 Simulate purchasing an item both with cash and on credit at current
average interest rates. Discuss the results and then chart the costs
and benefits of credit.
 Have different groups in class research types of investments. The
groups should identify the costs and benefits of each type of
investment and present the findings to the class.
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Credit - an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Expenditures - spending on goods and services.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Interest rate - the price of money that is borrowed or saved, determined by the forces of supply and demand.
Productivity - a measure of goods and services produced over a period of time with a given set of resources.
Savings - income that is not spent, setting aside income or money for future use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
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Geography
High School
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 1: Geographic Tools and Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and
technologies to locate, use, and present information about
people, places, and environments.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(K) locates major political and physical features of Earth from
memory and compares the relative locations of those features.
Locations will be included in indicator at each grade level (e.g.,
▲Beijing, ▲English Channel, ▲India, ▲Iraq, ▲Moscow, ▲Sahara
Desert, ▲South Africa, ▲Venezuela, Balkan Peninsula, Berlin,
Black Sea, Bosporus Strait, Euphrates River, Geneva, Hong Kong,
Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,
South Korea, Suez Canal, Tigris River, Tokyo, Yangtze River).
2. (A) interprets maps and other graphic representations to analyze
United States and world issues (e.g., urban vs. urban areas,
development vs. conservation, land use in the world vs. local
community, nuclear waste disposal, relocation of refugees).
3. (A) analyzes ways in which mental maps influence past, present,
and future decisions about location, settlement, and public policy
(e.g., building sites, planned communities, settlement sites).
4. (A) produces maps and other geographic representations, using
data from a variety of sources to answer questions and solve
problems (e.g., census data, interviews, geographic information
system (GIS) and other databases, questionnaires).
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Construct comparative maps to illustrate the impact of relative and
absolute location on: the outcomes of international conflicts, the
successes and failures of major trade routes and market economies,
the distribution of natural resources and international power, and the
development of urban centers (1) See also: EB1I1, EB1I4, EB3I3,
KB3I2, USB1I1, USB1I4, USB3I5, USB4I2, WHB1I3, WHB1I6,
WHB2I5, WHB2I6, WHB2I8, WHB3I1, WHB3I2, WHB3I4, WHB4I1,
WHB4I4
Cooperative groups will construct a series of population dot maps
(1945, 1950, 1955) to show the pattern of movement of people to
suburbs in the period of post WWII posterity. (2) See also: USB3I5
Construct an argument for or against the development of governmentprotected lands for settlement, economic activity, or development. (2)
See also: EB1I1, EB1I4, EB4I1, EB4I4; USB3I9, USB4I3
Use several different types of maps to account for consequences of
human environment interactions (2) See also: EB1I1, EB1I4, EB4I1,
EB4I4; USB3I9, USB4I3; WHB4I5
Choose and give reasons to use specific technologies to analyze
selected geographic problems (e.g., aerial photographs, geographic
information systems (GIS), geographic positioning system (GPS), to
determine the extent of water pollution in harbors, or the range of
deforestation in several locations).(2) See also: EB1I1, EB1I4,
EB4I1, EB4I4; USB3I9, USB4I3; WHB4I5
Through the Eyes of a Refugee: a study of Afghanistan’s refugee
crisis and the decision making process for locating refugee camps.
The lesson is available on the National Geographic website. (2) See
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Teacher Notes:
Absolute location - the location of a point expressed by a grid reference (latitude and longitude).
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Conservation - the careful use and protection of natural resources, such as soil, forests, and water.
Database - a compilation, structuring, and categorization of information for analysis and interpretation.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Geographic Information System (GIS) - a computerized geographic database that contains information about the spatial distribution of physical and human
characteristics of Earth’s surface.
Geographic representation - maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and satellite-produced images used to depict selected aspects of the earth’s surface.
Graphic representations - maps and graphs used to portray geographic information (thematic and choropleth maps, cartograms, graphs [pie, bar, line, population
pyramids]).
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Market economy - a system in which buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and distribution, based on supply and demand.
Mental Maps - the mental image a person has of an area.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
Political features - spatial expressions of political behavior; boundaries on land, water, and air space; cities, towns, counties, countries.
Relative location - the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
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Geography
High School
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 2: Places and Regions: The student analyzes the human and physical features that give places and
regions their distinctive character.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) demonstrates how various regional frameworks are used to
interpret the complexity of Earth (e.g., vegetation, climate, religion,
language, occupations, industries, resources, governmental
systems, economic systems).
2.▲(A) analyzes the factors that contribute to human changes in
regions (e.g., technology alters use of place, migration, changes in
cultural characteristics, political factors).
3. (K) recognizes how regional identity both unifies and delineates
groups of people (e.g., being from the Midwest both connects a
person to others from that region and defines them to others as
Midwesterners with particular characteristics and values).
4. (A) uses regions to analyze past and present issues to answer
questions (e.g., conflicts caused by overlapping regional identities,
causes and impacts of regional alliances, changing regional
identities).
5. (A) analyzes the ways in which people’s perception of places and
regions affect their decisions (e.g., land use, property value,
settlement patterns, job opportunities).
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Prepare a cause and effect chart to illustrate the changes in modes
of transportation from canals to steam engines and how
transportation the impacted the movement of people in Europe (2)
See also: EB1I2, EB1I3, EB1I4, EB2I6; WHB2I4
 Develop a project integrating place, human characteristics, and
physical environments (effects of climate and tectonic processes,
settlement and migration processes at the borders) (2) See also:
WHB4I2, WHB4I4, WHB5I4
 Generate lists of characteristics and relative location of regions in
the United States: Sun Belt, Rust Belt, Wheat Belt, etc. (3) See also:
USB4I2, USB4I3, USB4I4
 Use maps to interpret patterns of movement of African Americans in
the 1950s and 60s in search of job opportunities (5) See also:
USB3I5, USB3I7
 Evaluate the effects of population growth and urbanization on
places: air pollution in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Milan, Italy; the
loss of farmlands to rapidly growing urban areas. (2, 5) See also:
EB1I4; USB3I9, USB4I3; WHB4I5
 Interpret how people express attachment to places and regions in
essays, songs, films, novels, and poems. (5) See also: KB1I6,
KB2I2; USB1I12; WHB1I1, WHB2I9, WHB3I6
Teacher Notes:
Cultural characteristics - (See culture; human feature)
Economic system - establishes how a country produces and distributes goods and services.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Relative location - the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
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Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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Geography
High School
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
These indicators represent an overlap between the disciplines of geography and science. Therefore students may learn these
indicators in either science and/or social studies depending upon local curricular decisions.
Benchmark 3: Physical Systems: The student understands Earth’s physical systems and how physical processes
shape Earth’s surface.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes the patterns of physical processes and their effect on
humans (e.g., weather patterns, earthquakes, drought,
desertification).
2. (A) analyzes the distribution of ecosystems by examining
relationships between soil, climate, plant, and animal life.
3. (K) describes the ways in which Earth’s physical processes are
dynamic and interactive (e.g., rising ocean levels, sea floor
spreading, wind and water deposition, climatic changes).
4. (A) analyzes an ecosystem to understand and solve problems
regarding environmental issues (e.g., carrying capacity, biological
magnification, reduction of species diversity, acid rain, ozone
depletion, contamination).
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Chart the economic impact of hurricanes on Florida’s economy and
on insurance rates in the southeastern region of the United States.
(1) See also: EB1I4, EB4I1, EB4I4, EB5I4
 Define relationships between changes in landforms and the effects of
climate: erosion of hill slopes, deposits of sediments by floods,
shaping of the land by wind. (1) See also: WHB4I5
 Use maps and aerial photographs to illustrate how natural disasters
as floods, hurricanes, tsunamis can alter landscapes: e.g., changes
of the Florida coast after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Mississippi
River floods of 1993, tsunami in southeast Asia in 2005. (1) See
also: USB4I3
 Analyzes the changes in the distribution of animal life in the Midwest
from the 1950’s to today: turkeys, armadillos, mountain lions. (2) See
also: USB3I9
 Construct a simple model of tectonic plates to demonstrate how
continental drift is a dynamic physical process. (3)
 Use the “O, SAE can you see?” model (C.L. Salter) for reading
landscapes to study patterns in geography as a definition of place. O
– Observation, S – Speculation, A – Analysis, E – Evaluation. (1)
web resource: NCGE
Teacher Notes:
Recommendation: the graduation requirements included in the revised Quality Performance Accreditation regulations will go into effect with the senior class of
2009, or the freshmen of 2005-06. Included in the requirements is a third credit in science. The science program 9-12 must include concepts (not courses) in
biological, physical, and earth science. Please consider the indicators from Benchmark 3 above to create a well-rounded study of the earth’s physical
systems.
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Biological magnification - the way chemicals build up in organisms, as each consumes other organisms lower in the food chain.
Carrying capacity - the maximum number of animals and/or people a given area can support at a given time.
Depletion - the lessening or exhaustion of a supply.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Plate tectonics - the theory that the uppermost part of the earth is divided into plates that slide or drift very slowly, causing the formation of physical features, such
as mountains.
Physical process - a course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters Earth’s physical systems (e.g., glaciation, erosion, deposition).
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Geography
High School
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 4: Human Systems: The student understands how economic, political, cultural, and social processes
interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation,
and conflict.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) identifies trends of population growth and migration in response
to environmental, social, economic, political, or technological
factors (e.g., stress on infrastructure, impact on environment,
cultural diffusion, socio-economic changes and pressures).
2. (A) analyzes how communication and transportation facilitate
cultural interchange (e.g., nationalism, ethnic pride, cross-cultural
adaptation, popularity of ethnic foods).
3. (A) evaluates market areas to determine reasons for success or
failure (e.g., advantages of location, trade partnerships, land value,
wars, labor supply and cost, resource availability, transportation
access, government structure, political cooperation).
4. (A) analyzes the purpose and characteristics of settlements (e.g.,
village vs. town vs. city, cities in development vs. developed
countries, rise of megalopolis edge cities and metropolitan
corridors, regional characteristics of cities, impact of transportation
technology, increasing number of ethnic enclaves).
5.▲(K) gives examples of how cultural cooperation and conflict are
involved in shaping the distribution of and connections between
cultural, political, and economic spaces on Earth (e.g., cultural:
Hindu vs. Muslims in India; political: International Court of Justice
and Hong Kong; economic: World Trade Organization).
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Use population graphs to compare and contrast environmental
change – rural to urban and rural to urban in the post WWI U.S.A.
Use population density graphs and data on air quality to determine
the impact of increased population to the environment (1) See also:
EB1I4, USB3I5, USB3I9, USB4I2
Examine the ethnic regions within Chicago, New York City, and Los
Angeles to determine patterns of movement and settlement as well
as the stresses on regional infrastructures. (1) See also: USB4I2,
USB4I3, USB4I4, USB4I5
Evaluate examples of the spread of culture traits that contribute to
cultural convergence (U.S. based fast food franchises in Russia and
Eastern Europe, the use of the English language worldwide in
science and business). (2) See also: EB3I3, EB3I4, EB3I5; CB5I2;
USB4I1; WHB4I6
Use the construct of the city as a place from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. to
create a discussion about the difference between inner cities, edge
cities, the megalopolis, and metropolitan corridor. (4) See also:
KB3I2; USB3I5, USB3I9, USB4I2
Urban Daydreams –identify the 10 most significant cities of the
world and then offer support for those choices. The lesson is
available on the National Geographic website. (4) web resource:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/02/g912/urban.html.
Teacher Notes:
Cultural diffusion -the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Ethnic enclaves - areas or neighborhoods within cities that are homogeneous in their ethnic make-up, and are usually surrounded by different ethnic
groups (Chinatown).
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Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Infrastructure - the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other places (relative
location).
Market - exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
Megalopolis - a large, sprawled urban complex, created through the spread and joining of separate metropolitan areas.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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Geography
High School
Geography: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of the spatial organization of Earth’s surface and
relationships between peoples and places and physical and human environments in order to explain the interactions that
occur in Kansas, the United States, and in our world.
Benchmark 5: Human-Environment Interactions: The student understands the effects of interactions between
human and physical systems.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) examines the impact that technology has on human
modification of the physical environment (e.g., over-fishing, logging
and mining, construction on floodplains, internal combustion
engine, toxic waste).
2.▲(A) examines alternative strategies to respond to constraints placed
on human systems by the physical environment (e.g., irrigation,
terracing, sustainable agriculture, water diversion, natural disasterresistant construction).
3. (A) discusses the pros and cons of specific policies and programs
for resource use and management (e.g., EPA, building restrictions,
mandated recycling, grazing).
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Use graphs and charts regarding world agricultural production in the
19th and 20th century to show the increase of people fed per acre
and the decrease in the number of farmers engaged in food
production. (1) See also: EB1I3, EB2I1, EB2I2, EB2I3, EB2I5,
EB2I6; KB3I2, KB3I4; USB4I4; WHB5I1
 Explain the spatial consequences, deliberate and inadvertent of
human activities that have global implications (dispersal of animal
and plant species world, increases in runoff and sediment;
alterations in the hydrologic cycle). (1) See also: EB1I4; USB3I9,
USB4I2; WHB4I5
 Evaluate the carrying capacity of selected regions to predict the
likely consequences of exceeding the environmental limitations
(Siberia). (1) See also: EB1I4; USB3I9, USB4I2; WHB4I5
 Map the waterways of western Europe to illustrate and interpret the
changes in the rivers over time to create routes of trade, transport
and travel through the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. (2) See also:
WHB1I3, WHB2I4
 Assign a selected EPA policy to each cooperative group. Analyze
the policy – define purpose, list pros and cons, and draw conclusions
regarding the effectiveness of the policy to protect the environment.
(3) See also: CB4I6; EB1I4, EB4I4; USB3I9, USB4I3
 Evaluate the geographic consequences of the development and use
of various forms of energy (renewable, non-renewable, and flow
resources). (3) See also: CB4I6; EB1I4, EB4I4; USB3I9, USB4I3;
WHB4I5
Teacher Notes:
Carrying capacity - the maximum number of animals and/or people a given area can support at a given time.
Human system - human entities that are interrelated, (a city, an airport, and a transportation network).
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Hydrologic Cycle - the continuous circulation of water from the oceans, through the air, to the land, and back to the sea; evaporation, condensation, and
precipitation.
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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History
(Kansas embedded with United States History Course)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the era of the emergence of the modern United States (1890 1930).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes the ways the People’s Party Platform of 1892
addressed the social and economic issues facing Kansas and the
nation.
2. (A) analyzes the text of William Allen White’s essay “What’s the
Matter with Kansas” to understand his opposition to Populism.
3. (A) explains the significance of the Girard newspaper Appeal to
Reason to the Socialist movement in the United States.
4. (K) discusses the child labor laws enacted by the Kansas
legislature during the Progressive period (e.g., 1905, 1909, 1917).
5. (K) understands the role of the Court of Industrial Relations in
solving labor disputes in the 1920s.
6. (K) explains the influence of Kansas writers and artists on the
Harlem Renaissance (e.g., Langston Hughes, Frank Marshall
Davis, Aaron Douglas, Coleman Hawkins).
7. (K) explains the challenges German Americans faced in Kansas
during World War I (e.g., discrimination, movement against German
languages).
Teacher Notes:
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Read the People’s Party Platform of 1892, as well as the
Republican and Democratic platforms. Compare and contrast the
platforms. Write an editorial, with supporting arguments, endorsing
one of the platforms. (1) See also: CGB4I1, EB1I3, EB3I4;
USB1I1, USB1I3
Review editorials or political cartoons from the Appeal to Reason to
determine the Socialist point of view. Give a speech from the
Socialist perspective. (3) See also: CB4I1, CB4I2, CB4I6; USB1I2
Study one of the following: 1) the writings of Langston Hughes, 2)
the poetry of Frank Marshall Davis, 3) the art of Aaron Douglas,
and, 4) the jazz music of Coleman “Hawk” Hawkins. Develop a
performance piece about the influence of each artist and their art
form on the emerging African American identity. Discuss how art,
literature, and music can help create a racial identity and the ways
in which this identity helps move forward the struggle for racial
equality. (6) See also: USB1I12
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History
(Kansas embedded with United States History Course)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the era of the Great Depression through World War II in United
States history (1930-1945).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) uses primary source materials to explore individual experiences
in the Dust Bowl in Kansas (e.g., diaries, oral histories, letters).
2. (A) researches how the WPA altered the Kansas landscape. (e.g.,
public art, bridges, parks, swimming pools, libraries).
3. (A) analyzes Alf Landon’s 1936 speech accepting the Republican
nomination for President in terms of the debate over the role of
government in the United States recovery.
4. (K) understands the role of Kansas aviation companies in World
War II.
5. (K) understands how conscientious objectors in Kansas participated
in alternative service to the country during World War II.
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Watch the film or read the book Grapes of Wrath. Compare and
contrast the film (or the book) to actual accounts of the Dust Bowl
found in diaries, letters, or oral histories. Review each source for its
credibility, purpose, and point of view. How does the film (or book)
capture the era? (1) See also: EB1I4, GB2I2
Read Alf Landon’s 1936 speech accepting the Republican
nomination for President. Compare and contrast his views with
Franklin Roosevelt on unemployment, government spending, the
U.S. Constitution, and state’s rights. Research current events and
find examples of ways the debate over the U.S. government’s role
in recoveries continues. (3) See also: CGB2I4, EB4I1&2&4
Alf Landon’s acceptance speech web resource:
http://www.kshs.org/portraits/landon_alfred_m.html
Read selections from William Stafford’s Down in My Heart: Peace
Witness in Wartime, about this Kansan’s experience as a
conscientious objector in World War II and the alternative service he
performed. (5) See also USB2I6
Teacher Notes:
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
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History
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High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the era of the Cold War (1945-1990).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes Brown vs.Board of Education of Topeka as it relates to
Kansas segregation laws and why it takes the lead in the Supreme
Court case.
2. (K) explains how Kansans have responded to increasing
urbanization and industrialization.
3. (A) traces the history of women in political life in Kansas from
Susanna Salter to Nancy Landon Kassebaum to understand issues
and accomplishments.
4. (A) debates the ways state government has tried to balance the
needs of farmers, industries, environmentalists, and consumers in
regards to water protection and regulation.
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Create a timeline of Kansas laws pertaining to segregation in
Kansas. Look at some of the earlier legal challenges to segregated
schools in Kansas. Discuss the cases in terms of the equality or
inequality of the segregated schools. (1) See also: CGB2I1, CGB4I3
 During the legislative session locate a pending bill that addresses
water issues in Kansas. Write a position paper on the bill, citing its
cost and benefit to various interest groups. (4)
See also: GB5I3
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Industrialization - the growth of machine production and the factory system.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
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History
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High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in contemporary United States history (since 1990).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) researches a contemporary issue in Kansas and constructs a
well developed argument in support or opposition of position.
2. (A) examines the history of racial and ethnic relations in Kansas
and applies this knowledge to current events.
Teacher Notes:
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 Using newspaper accounts examine issues concerning race
relations in Kansas in the 20th century. Determine the cause and
effect of the issues. (2) See also USB2I7, USB3I7
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History
(Kansas embedded with United States History Course)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 5: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes a theme in Kansas history to explain patterns of
continuity and change over time.
2. (A) develops historical questions on a specific topic in Kansas
history and analyzes the evidence in primary source documents to
speculate on the answers.
3. (A) investigates an event in Kansas history using primary and
secondary sources and develops a credible interpretation of the
event, speculating on its meaning.
4. (A) compares competing historical narratives in Kansas history by
contrasting different historians’ choice of questions, use of sources,
and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these factors
contribute to different interpretations.
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Compare how historians have written about Brown vs. Board of
Education. Compare and contrast various interpretations and
determine what historical questions were the basis of the work. (4)
See also: CGB2I1
 Primary source resources:
www.kshs.org
http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/index.html
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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History
(United States)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the era of the emergence of the modern United States (1890 1930).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) examines topics in the transformation of American society in the
rise of big business, heavy industry, and mechanized farming in the
late 19th century (e.g., Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, “Robber
Barons” or “Captains of Industry”, Sherman Antitrust Act,
muckrakers).
2. (A) explains the rise of the American labor movement (e.g.,
Samuel Gompers, Haymarket Tragedy, Mother Jones, Industrial
Workers of the World, Eugene Debs, strikes).
3. (A) analyzes the key ideas of William Jennings Bryan and other
populists (e.g., free coinage of silver, government ownership of
railroads, graduated income tax, direct election of senators, election
reform).
4.▲(A) examines the emergence of the United States in international
affairs at the turn of the 20th century (e.g., debate over imperialism,
Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, Panama Canal,
Open Door Policy, Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy).
5. (K) explains the spread of Progressive ideas (e.g., political
influence on elections, desire to have government regulation of
private business and industries, child labor laws, muckrakers,
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson).
6. (A) analyzes the reasons for and impact of the United States’
entrance into World War I.
7. (A) analyzes how the home front was influenced by United States
involvement in World War I (e.g., Food Administration, Espionage
Act, Red Scare, influenza, Creel Committee).
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 Compare the Robber Barons to business people of today. Discuss:
What characteristics still hold true in today’s society about socioeconomics which also existed at the turn of the century? What
inequalities exist based on unequal distributions of wealth? (1) See
also: CB4I6; EB1I1, EB1I3, EB2I1, EB2I2, EB2I5, EB2I6, EB4I4
 Create a graphic organizer comparing each movement. List the
benefits to each movement and what groups of people were included
and which groups of people were excluded from participation. (2)
See also: CB4I2, CB4I5, CB4I6, CB4I8; EB1I2, EB1I4, EB3I2,
EB5I1, EB5I2
 Select two primary source documents, one being pro-imperialism
and the other being anti-imperialism. Read both documents. Debate
the issues presented in the primary sources. (4) See also: CB5I2,
CB5I6; EB1I1, EB1I2, EB1I4, EB4I4; GB4I5
web resource: www.boondocksnet.com//ai/index.html
 Create a cause and effect chart for the start of WWI. Include how
imperialism, militarism, alliances, and nationalism played a role in the
war’s development. (6) See also: GB4I5; WHB3I1
 Create a timeline of Susan B. Anthony’s life that shows her life in ten
year increments above the timeline and changes in society below.
(8) See also: USB5I1
 Read The Great Gatsby. Keep a reading response journal. Keep
this question in mind as journal is completed: How was F. Scott
Fitzgerald responding to his country in the 1920’s through this novel?
One side of the journal should reflect historical significance and the
other side of the journal should be the response to the novel. (12)
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8. (K) retraces the progress of the women’s suffrage movement from
the state to the national arena (e.g., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, states granting voting rights in the 19th
Amendment).
9. (A) analyzes factors that contributed to changes in work, production
and the rise of a consumer culture during the 1920’s (e.g., leisure
time, technology, communication, travel, assembly line, credit
buying).
10. (A) evaluates various social conflicts in the early 1920’s (e.g., rural
vs. urban, fundamentalism vs. modernism, prohibition, nativism,
flapper vs. traditional woman’s role).
11. (A) analyzes significant developments in race relations (e.g., rise of
Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, race riots, NAACP, Tuskegee).
12. (A) interprets how the arts, music, and literature reflected social
change during the Jazz Age (e.g., Harlem Renaissance, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, development of blues and jazz culture).
Teacher Notes:
 Listen to music, read African American poetry (Langston Hughes),
view the movies from the 1920’s. Compare current music to music
from the 1890’s thru WWI. Discuss: Why did jazz break into the
mainstream American culture at this moment in history? (12) See
also: USB5I3
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Credit - an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
Fundamentalism - a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Imperialism - the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Militarism - a policy of aggressive military preparedness.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Social Darwinism - a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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History
(United States History)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the era of the Great Depression through World War II in United
States history (1930-1945).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes the causes and impact of the Great Depression (e.g.,
overproduction, consumer debt, banking regulation, unequal
distribution of wealth).
2.▲(A) analyzes the costs and benefits of New Deal programs. (e.g.,
budget deficits vs. creating employment, expanding government:
CCC, WPA, Social Security, TVA, community infrastructure
improved, dependence on subsides).
3. (A) analyzes the debate over expansion of federal government
programs during the Depression (e.g., Herbert Hoover, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Alf Landon, Huey Long, Father Charles
Coughlin).
4. (A) analyzes the human cost of the Dust Bowl through art and
literature (e.g., Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck).
5. (A) analyzes the debate over and reasons for United States entry
into World War II (e.g., growth of totalitarianism, America First
Committee, neutrality, isolationism, Pearl Harbor).
6.▲(K) discusses how World War II influenced the home front (e.g.,
women in the work place, rationing, role of the radio in
communicating news from the war front, victory gardens,
conscientious objectors).
7. (K) examines the complexity of race and ethnic relations (e.g., Zoot
Suit Riots, Japanese internment camps, American reaction to
atrocities of Holocaust and unwillingness to accept Jewish
refugees).
8. (A) examines the entry of the United States into the nuclear age
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 Create a cause and effect chart on the Great Depression using
information from Where Did all the Money Go: The Great Depression
Mystery. (1) See also: EB1I4, EB2I1, EB2I2, EB2I3, EB2I4, EB2I5,
EB2I6, EB2I7, EB4I2, EB4I4, EB5I2
Web resource:
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM558&page=teacher
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Discuss the original intent for the New Deal social programs. Have
the programs met needs of society as intended? Why or why not?
(2) See also: EB1I4, EB2I2, EB4I4, EB5I1; KB2I2
Web resource:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/depress/overview.html
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Role-play debates or hold a mock round-table discussion group as
Hoover, Roosevelt, Landon, Long and Coughlin in front of the class.
The rest of the class acts as an audience and poses questions to
each character. (3) See also: EB1I4, EB2I2, EB4I4, EB5I1; KB2I2
Use WWII posters as primary sources and discuss how they were
used to influence and promote behaviors at home regarding the war.
(6) See also: KB5I2, KB5I3; USB5I2, USB5I3
Web resource:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_
persuasion.html
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Read excerpts of letters or diaries from internment camps. (7) See
also: GB1I3, GB2I5, GB4I5
Web resource:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/japanese_relocation_wwii/japanes
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(e.g., Manhattan Project, Truman’s decision to use the atomic
bombs, opposition to nuclear weapons).
Teacher Notes:
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Debt - the accumulated negative balance.
Depression - a period of drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Infrastructure - the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
Isolationism - a national policy by which a country does not become involved with other nations in agreements and/or alliances.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Totalitarianism- a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life
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History
(United States History)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in the era of the Cold War (1945-1990).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains why the United States emerged as a superpower as
the result of World War II.
2.▲(A) analyzes the origins of the Cold War (e.g., establishment of the
Soviet Bloc, Mao’s victory in China, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade,
Iron Curtain).
3. (A) evaluates the foreign policies of Truman and Eisenhower during
the Cold War (e.g., establishment of the United Nations,
containment, NATO, Truman Doctrine, Berlin Blockade, Korean
War, Iron Curtain, U-2 incident).
4. (A) evaluates the foreign policies of Kennedy and Johnson during
the Cold War (e.g., Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Vietnam War,
Peace Corp).
5. (A) analyzes domestic life in the United States during the Cold War
era (e.g., McCarthyism, federal aid to education, interstate highway
system, space as the New Frontier, Johnson’s Great Society).
6. (A) analyzes the cause and effect of the counterculture in the
United States (e.g., Sputnik, reaction to the Military Industrial
Complex, assassinations of Kennedy and King, draft, Vietnam War,
Watergate Scandal).
7.▲(K) examines the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the
extension of civil rights (e.g., Brown vs. Board of Education of
Topeka, Little Rock Nine, Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Bus
Boycott, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Betty Friedan, NOW, ERA, Title
IX).
8. (K) discusses events that contributed to the end of the Cold War
(e.g., Détente, Nixon’s visit to China, SALT talks, expansion of the
military-arms race, relationship between Ronald Reagan and
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Use a word web to associate terms, people, countries, and actions
with the Cold War. (2) See also: GB4I5; WHB4I1
Create a graphic organizer with these headings: Truman,
Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. Under each leader, describe
world events and hot topics, plans developed in reaction to those
events, what resulted from those plans and if the plans failed or
succeeded. (3, 4) See also: GB4I5; WHB4I1; CB5I2, CB5I4, CB5I5,
EB1I4
Military Industrial Complex Speech resource:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Militaryindustrial_complex (6)
Read primary and secondary sources of groups and peoples
involved with the struggle for civil rights. Discussion: What were the
opposing viewpoints? What has changed socially as a result of
those movements? What groups continue to struggle for civil rights
today? (7) See also: KB4I2, KB5I4; USB5I4
Web resources:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/davis_case/davis_case.ht
ml
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_ro
binson.html
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/memphis_v_mlk/memphi
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Mikhail Gorbachev).
9.
(A) evaluates the causes and effects of the reform movements of
the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., environmentalism – Rachel Carson,
EPA; consumer protection – Ralph Nader; changes in the American
labor movement – Cesar Chávez).
Teacher Notes:
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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History
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High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points in contemporary United States history (since 1990).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) examines the relationship of the United States to the rest of the
world in the post Cold War era (e.g., domestic and international
terrorism, United States as the single superpower, United States
involvement in the Middle East conflict, spread and resistance to
United States popular culture).
2. (A) describes the impact of developments in technology, global
communication, and transportation.
3. (A) researches major contemporary social issues.
4. (A) describes how changes in the national and global economy
have influenced the work place.
5. (A) examines United States immigration policy to understand the
affects of legal and illegal immigration (e.g., political, social,
economic).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Using newspapers and news magazines, read articles about acts of
terrorism in the United States and around the world. Identify
commonalities and differences in these attacks in terms of who,
what, why, where, and how of the events. (1) See also: GB4I5
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Immigration - to enter and settle in a country to which one is not native.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
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History
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High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 5: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes a theme in United States history to explain patterns of
continuity and change over time.
2. (A) develops historical questions on a specific topic in United States
history and analyzes the evidence in primary source documents to
speculate on the answers.
3.▲(A) uses primary and secondary sources about an event in U.S.
history to develop a credible interpretation of the event, evaluating
on its meaning (e.g., uses provided primary and secondary sources
to interpret a historical-based conclusion).
4. (A) compares competing historical narratives in United States
history by contrasting different historians’ choice of questions, use
of sources, and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these
factors contribute to different interpretations.
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Analyze the Civil Rights Movement. Discuss: have minority groups
(women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, etc) achieved
equality? Why or why not? (1) See also: USB1I8, USB1I10,
USB3I7
 Read excerpts from Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. What
were the viewpoints of each side? How did the nation react? Do we
live in a integrated society today? (2, 3, 4) See also: USB3I7
Web resource:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/brown_v_board_documents/brown
_v_board.html
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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History
(World)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points of the Global Age of Exploration (1400-1750).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1.▲(A) analyzes the changes in European thought and culture resulting
from the Renaissance (e.g., more secular worldview; Machiavelli,
Shakespeare; humanism; innovations in art: Michelangelo, Da
Vinci; architecture: St. Peters Dome).
2. (A) investigates the changes in European thought and culture
resulting from the Reformation (e.g., establishment of Protestant
faiths, Counter reformation, Gutenberg Press, Catholic vs.
Protestant wars of religion).
3. (K) examines the economic and social consequences of European
exploration and expansion (e.g., rise of European power,
mercantilism, Columbian Exchange, impact on indigenous people in
North and South America, trans-Atlantic slave trade).
4. (A) compares and contrasts the rise of constitutionalism in Britain
with political structures in France. (e.g., changes resulting from the
English Civil War and Glorious Revolution: English Bill of Rights,
establishment of Parliament, French Absolutism).
5. (K) explores the growth of Russian Absolutism (e.g., Ivan the
Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great).
6. (K) explains the significance of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mogul
Empires (e.g., the Fall of Constantinople and the establishment of
Ottoman dominance in the Balkans and Southwest Asia; The
spread of Shi’ism in Persia, the establishment of Islamic rule in
India).
7.▲(K) describes why East Asia withdrew into isolationalism during a
time of European expansion (e.g., Tokugawa Shogunate, end of
Great Ming Naval Expeditions)
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 Select two works of art with one being a work by Michelangelo and
one being a work by Da Vinci. Identify key elements in each. Then
compare and contrast their technique. Provide an opinion on each of
the works of art. (1)
 Discuss selections from the English Bill of Rights and records from
Louis XIV’s court. Create a graphic organizer to compare and
contrast Constitutionalism and Absolutism. (5) See also: CGB2I3
Web resource: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
 Use primary sources to identify causes of the Ming Isolationism and
Tokugawa Shogunate Isolationism. Compare and contrast the
differences and similarities between the two societies. Investigate
the long-term impact of isolationism on each country. (7) See also:
GB4I5
Web resource: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu
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Teacher Notes:
Absolutism - a form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority.
Columbian Exchange - the exchange of products, diseases, and ideas, some positive and others negative, between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the era of
Christopher Columbus.
Constitutionalism - an idea that the powers of government should be distributed according to a constitution and those powers should be restrained by constitutional
provision.
Counter Reformation - a reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church that arose in 16th-century Europe in response to the Protestant Reformation.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Humanism - a cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature,
art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome
Isolationism - a national policy by which a country does not become involved with other nations in agreements and/or alliances.
Mercantilism - an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of a nation by strict
governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of agriculture and manufacturing, and
foreign trading monopolies.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Renaissance - a revival or rebirth, usually referring to the revival of classical learning in Italy after the Middle Ages.
Shi’ism - the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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History
(World)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points of the Age of Revolutions (1650-1920).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (K) explains essential concepts from the Scientific Revolution (e.g.,
the Heliocentric Theory; Natural Law; scientific method).
2.▲(K) explains essential concepts from the Enlightenment that
represented a turning point in intellectual history (e.g., ideas of
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Enlightened despotism,
salons).
3. (A) analyzes outcomes of the American and French Revolutions
(e.g., the establishment of republican government grounded in
Enlightenment thought, the deterioration of the French Republic into
the reign of terror; the spread of revolutionary ideas and nationalism
with the growth of Napoleonic France).
4. (A) explores industrialization and its consequences in Britain (e.g.,
the rise of laissez-faire economics in Britain, Adam Smith, Chartists,
development of the middle class).
5.▲(A) compares and contrasts German unification with the Meiji
Restoration (e.g., nationalism, militarism, modernization,
industrialization).
6. (K) describes the motives and impact of imperialism (e.g., motives:
economic-natural resources and expansion of trade, the
competition for colonies in Africa and Asia and the Berlin
Conference; humanitarian- missionaries and the ideology of Social
Darwinism, political- naval bases and expansion of political control;
restriction of human rights in King Leopold’s Congo; development of
infrastructure; roads, schools, hospitals, railroads; assimilation and
loss of indigenous culture).
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 Research and role-play a philosopher from the Enlightenment.
Simulate a round table discussion inviting each philosopher. Pose
the question: What makes for a good government? What is the
recipe for good government? Encourage interactive discussion
among the philosophers. (2) See also: CGB2I2
 Make a Venn diagram showing the strengths and weaknesses of
German Unification and the Meiji Restoration. Discuss the points on
which points both regimes intersect. (5) See also: GB4I5; EB1I4
 Select one of the anti-colonial movements and research the two key
issues of that anti-colonial movement. Participate in a panel
discussion where members of each area and the colonizer of that
area are represented on the panel. (8) See also: GB4I5; EB1I4
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7. (A) analyzes the causes and impact of the Russian Revolution
(e.g., the idea of communism as an economic alternative to
capitalism; Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, failure
of tsarist regime, economic instability; beginnings of totalitarianism).
8.▲(A) examines causes of anti-colonial movements in Latin America,
Asia, and Africa (e.g., ▲Haitian Revolution; Bolivar; San Martin;
Hidalgo and Morelos; Taiping Rebellion; ▲Boxer Rebellion;
▲Sepoy Rebellion; ▲Zulu Wars).
9. (K) describes the impact of cross-cultural exchange on artistic
developments of the late 19th century (e.g., romanticism;
impressionism, impact of Asian culture on western culture).
Teacher Notes:
Capitalism - an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads) and their operation
for profit, under competitive conditions.
Communism - a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of goods, and social
classes and private ownership are discouraged.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods (food, clothing,
buildings, tools).
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Imperialism - the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
Impressionism - a theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual
impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
Industrialization - the growth of machine production and the factory system.
Infrastructure - the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
Laissez-faire economics - an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a freeenterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.
Militarism - a policy of aggressive military preparedness.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Republic - a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Romanticism - an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis
on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and
conventions.
Social Darwinism - a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
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History
(World)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 3: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points of the Era of World War (1914-1945).
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes the causes and immediate consequences of WWI
(e.g., imperialism rivalries: Triple Entente, Triple Alliance,
nationalism, arms race in England, France, and Germany; Treaty of
Versailles, reparations, War Guilt Clause).
2. (K) describes the emergence of contemporary Middle East (e.g.,
petroleum society, Zionism, Arab nationalism, Balfour Declaration,
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Armenian Genocide, Ataturk’s
modernization of Turkey).
3.▲(A) examines the nature of totalitarianism in fascist Germany and
communist Soviet Union (e.g., one party rule; systematic violation
of human rights, secret police, state supremacy over individual
rights, role of private property, class structure).
4. (A) analyzes the causes and immediate consequences of WWII
(e.g., German, Italian, and Japanese aggression; failure of the
League of Nations; appeasement; development of American,
British-Soviet alliance; Holocaust; Nanjing; introduction of nuclear
weapons; war crime trials).
5. (A) analyzes the independence movement in India (e.g., Gandhi,
non-violence, Salt March, boycotts, creation of Pakistan).
6. (K) describes major intellectual, social, and artistic developments
(e.g., surrealism, mural art of Mexico, Bauhaus, emergence of film
and radio, rise of psychology, antibiotics, cubism).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Create a cause and effect diagram after examining issues of
totalitarianism in Fascist Germany and the USSR. Compare and
contrast how totalitarianism functioned in the two countries. (3) See
also: EB2I5
Bauhaus - a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918
Cubism - a style of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the drawing of natural forms into abstract, often geometric
shapes.
Impressionism - a theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual
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impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
Surrealism - a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery
and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
Totalitarianism- a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life
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History
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High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 4: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas,
developments, and turning points of the World Since 1945.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes the Cold War as the competition between two
competing ideologies or world views and its impact on various
regions of the world. (e.g., roots in WWII, Mao’s China; the Cold
War in Europe; NATO, Warsaw Pact, and the competition for nonaligned nations; collapse of Communism in Europe).
2. (A) examines issues of social justice and human rights as
expressed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
3.▲(K) describes the emergence of the Middle East as an influential
region in world politics (e.g., creation of the state of Israel, emerging
Middle Eastern post WWII nationalism: Suez Crisis, petroleum
based interdependence).
4. (A) analyzes the impact of international organizations on global
interaction (e.g., the United Nations; Organization of American
States, NATO, non-governmental organizations such as the
International Red Cross, European Union).
5. (A) examines the trade-offs made by societies between economic
growth and environmental protection in a world of limited resources.
(e.g., the Green Revolution, population pressure, water, pollution,
natural resource degradation).
6. (K) describes major intellectual, social and artistic developments
(e.g., decoding DNA, space technology, consumerism, postmodernism, responses to globalization, feminism, fundamentalism,
telecommunications).
Teacher Notes:
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Debate the creation of the state of Israel. Assign sides: pro-Israeli
and pro-Palestinian, neutral, or UN stance. Prior to debates,
research positions using primary sources, finding at least three
points to support point of view. Discuss how the creation of Israel
impacts Middle East relations today. (2, 3, 4) See also: CGB5I3&4
 Universal Declaration of Human Rights resource:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html (2)
Communism - a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of goods, and social
classes and private ownership are discouraged.
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Feminism - the movement advancing women’s rights and interests.
Fundamentalism - a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
Interdependence - people relying on each other in different places or in the same place for ideas, goods, and services.
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Post-modernism - several artistic movements since the 1960s that have challenged the philosophy and practices of modern arts or literature.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Trade-off - getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another.
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights- an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
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History
(World)
High School
History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas,
events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and
research skills.
Benchmark 5: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
High School Knowledge and/or Application Indicators
The student:
1. (A) analyzes a theme in world history to explain patterns of
continuity and change over time.
2. (A) develops historical questions on a specific topic in world history
and analyzes the evidence in primary source documents to
speculate on the answers.
3. (A) uses primary and secondary sources about an event in world
history to develop a credible interpretation of the event, forming
conclusions about its meaning (e.g., use provided primary and
secondary sources to interpret a historical-based conclusion).
4. (A) compares competing historical narratives in world history by
contrasting different historians’ choice of questions, use of sources,
and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these factors
contribute to different interpretations.
High School Instructional Suggestions
 Investigate the Treaty of Versailles in relation to the Mandate System
that emerges through that document and the League of Nations.
Pose the question: Was the Mandate System beneficial for the
Middle East countries that were created? Use primary and
secondary sources as a part of research to write an essay.
(1, 2, 3, 4) See also: WHB3I2, WHB4I3, GB4I5 web resource:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Teacher Notes:
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
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GLOSSARY
A
Absolutism - a form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority.
Absolute location - the location of a point expressed by a grid reference (latitude and longitude).
Acculturation - the process of adopting the traits of a cultural group.
Affirmative action - any of a wide range of programs aimed at expanding opportunities for women and minorities.
Allocation - the distribution of resources, goods, or services.
Animism - the belief in the existence of individual spirits can be found in natural objects and phenomena.
Aquaculture - controlling the cultivating marine or freshwater food fish or shellfish (clams, salmon, etc.).
Articles of Confederation - first constitution of the United States, 1781; created a weak national government, replaced in 1789 by the
Constitution of the United States.
Artifacts - objects that were used by people long ago.
B
Barter - trading goods or services without the use of money.
Bauhaus - a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918
Benefit - something that satisfies one’s wants.
Biodiversity - the number and variety of plant and animal life in a defined area; a measure of biological differences.
Biological magnification - the way chemicals build up in organisms, as each consumes other organisms lower in the food chain.
Biome - a major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and
climate.
Borrowing - promising to repay a given amount of money, often with added interest.
Budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular use; a plan for saving and spending money.
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Capital (economics) - wealth in the form of money or property, used or accumulated in a business by a person, partnership, or corporation.
Capital goods, capital resources - special goods such as tools, equipment, machines, and buildings which are used to produce other goods and
services.
Capitalism - an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution (land, factories, mines, railroads)
and their operation for profit, under competitive conditions.
Carrying capacity - the maximum number of animals and/or people a given area can support at a given time.
Citizen - a native or naturalized member of a political community.
Citizenship - conduct as a citizen; the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
City-states - a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.
Civilization - a society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning.
Clear and present danger - any situation where the public safety, health, or well-being is threatened.
Colonialism - a policy by which a nation obtains and controls foreign lands as colonies, usually for economic gain.
Colonization - the establishment of colonies.
Columbian Exchange - the exchange of products, diseases, and ideas, some positive and others negative, between Europe, Africa and the
Americas in the era of Christopher Columbus.
Common good - for the benefit or interest of a politically organized society as a whole.
Communism - a political and economic system based on the writings of Karl Marx in which the state controls the production and distribution of
goods, and social classes and private ownership are discouraged.
Community - any group living in the same area or having interests, work, etc. in common.
Compact - binding agreement made by two or more persons or parties; covenant.
Comparative advantage - when one individual or nation has an efficiency advantage over another individual or nation with two separate products
but has a greater advantage in one product than in the other. The efficient producer has a comparative advantage for the product in which he or it
has greater relative efficiency.
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Compass rose - a drawing that shows the orientation of north, south, east, and west on a map.
Concurrent powers- powers shared by both the federal and state government (for example, levying taxes, borrowing money, and spending for
the general welfare).
Conservation - the careful use and protection of natural resources, such as soil, forests, and water.
Constitution - a document containing the system of fundamental laws of a nation, state, or society.
Constitutional monarchy - monarchy in which the powers of the monarch are restricted by a constitution.
Constitutional powers - (See expressed powers)
Constitutionalism - an idea that the powers of government should be distributed according to a constitution, and those powers should be
restrained by constitutional provision.
Consumer - a person who buys goods or services to satisfy wants.
Consumption - the using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Copyright - The exclusive legal rights to reproduce, publish, and sell the matter and form (as of a literary, musical, or artistic work).
Counter Reformation - a reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church that arose in 16th-century Europe in response to the Protestant
Reformation.
Cost - something that is given up to satisfy your wants.
Credit - an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services; money available for someone to borrow.
Cubism - a style of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the drawing of natural forms into abstract,
often geometric shapes.
Cultural characteristics - (See culture; human feature)
Cultural diffusion -the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another.
Cultural diversity - the differences in the way groups of people live, including their customs, beliefs, and arts.
Cultural landscape -the surface of the earth as modified by human action, including housing types, settlement patterns, and agricultural use.
Culture - learned behavior of people which includes belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions, organizations, and material goods
(food, clothing, buildings, tools).
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Database - a compilation, structuring, and categorization of information for analysis and interpretation.
Debt - the accumulated negative balance.
Deficit - a negative balance after expenditures are subtracted from revenues for a specific time period.
Deflation - the sustained decrease in the general price level of the entire economy, resulting in an increase in the purchasing power of money.
Demand - the number of consumers willing and able to purchase a good or service at a given price.
Democracy - form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative.
Depletion - the lessening or exhaustion of a supply.
Depression - a period of drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and
unemployment.
Dictatorship - a government system controlled by one ruler who has absolute power and usually controlled by force.
Diffusion - the spread of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another.
Distribution - the arrangement of items over a specified area.
Diversion - in criminal procedure, a system for giving a chance for a first-time criminal defendant in lesser crimes to perform community service,
make restitution, or obtain treatment and/or counseling.
Dynasty - a family or group that maintains power for several generations.
E
Eastern Mediterranean - includes the countries of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt; refers to the Byzantine and Muslim empires.
Economic interdependence - mutually dependent on each other financially.
Economic sanction - the withholding, usually by several nations, of loans or trade relations with a nation violating international law, to force it to
comply.
Economic system - establishes how a country produces and distributes goods and services.
Economy - the production and distribution of goods and services within an economic system.
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Embargo - government restriction placed on trade.
Emigrant - a person (migrating away from) leaving a country or area to settle in another.
Eminent domain - (1) the right of a sovereign state to appropriate all or part of any property for necessary public use, making reasonable
compensation. (2) The right in international law for one nation to appropriate the territory or property of another for self protection.
Entrepreneur - a person who organizes productive resources to take the risk to start a business.
Equal opportunity - the idea that each person is guaranteed the same chance to succeed in life.
Equilibrium point (Equilibrium Price) - the price at which quantity supplied equals quantity demanded.
Era - a period of history marked by some distinctive characteristic.
Ethnic enclaves - areas or neighborhoods within cities that are homogeneous in their ethnic make-up, and are usually surrounded by different
ethnic groups (Chinatown).
Ethnic group - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
Exchange rate - the price of one currency in relation to another currency.
Expenditures - spending on goods and services.
Exports - goods and services produced in one nation and sold to buyers in another nation.
Expressed powers - the powers explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution (enumerated powers are the same as constitutional powers or
expressed powers).
F
Fascism - a system of government characterized by strong nationalist, racist, and military policies, ruled by a dictator, with a centralized control of
the basic means of production.
Fauna - animal life.
Federal Reserve System - the independent central bank of the United States that controls the money supply.
Federalism - a policy favoring strong centralized federal (central government) power. Power of government is divided between national and state
governments.
Feminism - the movement advancing women’s rights and interests.
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Feudalism - an economic and political system in which lords grant land to vassals in exchange for protection, allegiance, and other services.
Financial capital - the money to acquire the three factors of production (land, labor, and capital such as equipment or buildings).
Fiscal policy - the use of federal government spending, taxing, and debt management to influence general economic activity.
Flora - plant life.
Folklore - the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, passed from person to person orally.
Fundamentalism - a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
G
General welfare - good of society as a whole; common or public good.
Geographic Information System (GIS) - a computerized geographic database that contains information about the spatial distribution of physical
and human characteristics of Earth’s surface.
Geographic representation - maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and satellite-produced images used to depict selected aspects of
the earth’s surface.
Geographic tools - reference resources such as almanacs, gazetteers, geographic dictionaries, statistical abstracts and other data compilations
used to provide information about the earth’s surface.
Glaciation - the formation of glaciers; the condition of being covered by glaciers; the effects produced by the action of glaciers.
Goods - something that you can touch or hold.
Government - institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled.
Graphic representations - maps and graphs used to portray geographic information (thematic and choropleth maps, cartograms, graphs [pie,
bar, line, population pyramids]).
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - the total market value of all final goods and services produced in the economy in a given year.
H
Human capital, human resource - people who work in jobs to produce goods and services.
Human feature (human characteristics) - items built by people that modify the earth’s surface (towns, roads, dams, mines).
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Human process - a course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters human systems on earth, such as migration or diffusion.
Human system - human entities that are interrelated, (a city, an airport, and a transportation network).
Humanism - a cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study
of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome
Hydrologic Cycle - the continuous circulation of water from the oceans, through the air, to the land, and back to the sea; evaporation,
condensation, and precipitation.
I
Immigrant - a person (migrating into) coming to a particular country or area to live.
Immigration - to enter and settle in a country to which one is not native.
Imperialism - the policy of increasing a nation’s authority by acquiring or controlling other nations.
Implied powers - powers assumed by government that are not specifically listed in the Constitution.
Impressionism - a theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the
immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
Incentives - something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, which induces action or motivates effort.
Income - financial gain received as wages/salaries, rent, interest, and/or profit.
Incorporation - cities are formed through a process of incorporation, establishing boundaries, creating a government, levying taxes.
Industrialization - the growth of machine production and the factory system.
Inferred information - ability to analyze and interpret different historical perspectives to see how the events influenced people’s behavior.
Inflation - sustained increase in the general price level of the entire economy, resulting in a reduction in the purchasing power of money.
Infrastructure - the skeletal framework of a nation (highways, roads, water systems, parks) provided by the public sector.
Inherent powers - those delegated powers of the constitution that are assumed to belong to the national government because it is a sovereign
state.
Interdependence - people relying on each other in different places or in the same place for ideas, goods, and services.
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Interest - a charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned.
Interest rate - the price of money that is borrowed or saved, determined by the forces of supply and demand.
International trade - the exchange of goods and services between countries.
Investor - someone who commits money (capital) with hopes of making a profit.
Isolationism - a national policy by which a country does not become involved with other nations in agreements and/or alliances.
L
Laissez-faire economics - an economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum
necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.
Latitude - a measure of distance, north or south from the equator, expressed in degrees.
Legend - an explanatory description or key to features on a map or chart.
Lending - to give for temporary use on condition that the same or its equivalent will be returned.
Location - the position of a point on the Earth’s surface, expressed by means of a grid (absolute location) or in relation to the position of other
places (relative location).
Longitude - a measure of distance, east or west from the Prime Meridian, expressed in degrees.
M
Magna Carta - document signed by King John of England in 1215 A.D. that guaranteed certain basic rights; considered the beginning of
constitutional government in England.
Manorialism - a medieval economic, social, and political system based on the manor (an estate ruled by a lord who enjoyed a variety of rights
over land and tenants).
Map projections - the transfer of the shape of land and water bodies, along with a global grid, from a globe to a flat map.
Market - exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
Market economy - a system in which buyers and sellers make major decisions about production and distribution, based on supply and demand.
Martial law - temporary rule by military authorities over civilians, as during a war, occupation, or insurrection.
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Mayflower Compact - document drawn up by the Pilgrims in 1620 while on the Mayflower before landing at Plymouth Rock; the Compact
provided a legal basis for self-government.
Megalopolis - a large, sprawled urban complex, created through the spread and joining of separate metropolitan areas.
Mental Maps - the mental image a person has of an area.
Mercantilism - an economic system developed in Europe as feudalism died out, intended to unify and increase the power and monetary wealth of
a nation by strict governmental regulation of the entire economy, designed to secure bullion, a favorable balance of trade, the development of
agriculture and manufacturing, and foreign trading monopolies.
Middle/South America - Mexico thru Central America, extending into South America; refers to the empires of Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas.
Migration - the movement of people or other organisms from one region to another.
Militarism - a policy of aggressive military preparedness.
Monarchy - governed by a monarch (king, queen, emperor, empress).
Monotheism - belief in a single God
Monotheistic - of, relating to, or characterized by the doctrine that there is but one God.
Movement - the interaction of people, goods, ideas, or natural phenomena from different places.
N
Nationalism - intense loyalty and devotion to one’s country; desire for national independence.
National security - defense and safety of a nation’s ability to safeguard citizens.
Natural resource - resources (fields, forests, the sea, and other gifts of nature) used to produce goods and services.
Needs- necessities (food, clothing, shelter)
O
Observed information - ability to understand historical narratives and describe historical experiences
Oligarchy - a form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons.
Opportunity cost - in making a decision, the most valuable alternative not chosen.
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Outsourcing - paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform.
P
Parliamentary - a system of government in which the chief executive is the leader whose party holds the most seats in the legislature after an
election or whose party forms a major part of the ruling coalition.
Patent - a writing securing to an inventor for a term of years the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention.
Patriotism - loyalty and devotion to one’s country.
Philosophy - investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical
methods.
Physical feature - a natural characteristic of a place (elevation, landforms, vegetation).
Physical process - a course or method of operation that produces, maintains, or alters Earth’s physical systems (e.g., glaciation, erosion,
deposition).
Physical systems - processes that create, maintain, and modify Earth’s physical features and environments, consisting of four categories:
atmospheric (e.g., climate), lithospheric (plate tectonics, erosion), hydrospheric (water cycle, ocean currents), and biospheric (plant and animal
communities).
Places - locations having distinctive characteristics, which give them meaning and character, and distinguish them from other locations.
Plate tectonics - the theory that the uppermost part of the earth is divided into plates that slide or drift very slowly, causing the formation of
physical features, such as mountains.
Political features - spatial expressions of political behavior; boundaries on land, water, and air space; cities, towns, counties, countries.
Polytheism - the doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.
Population distribution - location patterns of various populations.
Population pyramid - a bar graph showing the distribution by gender and age of the population of a country or other political entity.
Post-modernism - several artistic movements since the 1960s that have challenged the philosophy and practices of modern arts or literature.
Price - amount of money that people pay when they buy a good or service. It is largely determined by the buying and selling decisions of
consumers and producers.
Primary source - a first-hand account of an event, person, or place (official document, diary, letter, historical photograph, oral testimony).
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Privileges - a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all.
Producer - one that produces, especially a person or organization that produces goods or services for sale.
Production - the creation of value or wealth by producing goods or services.
Productivity - a measure of goods and services produced over a period of time with a given set of resources.
Profit - after producing and selling a good or service, profit is the difference between revenue and cost of production. If costs are greater than
revenue, profit is negative (there is a loss).
Prohibited powers - powers denied within the Constitution.
Push-pull factors - in migration theory, the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that drive or draw people away from their
previous location, often simultaneously.
Q
Quota - a proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment or a production assignment.
R
Region - an area with one or more common characteristics or features which make it different from surrounding areas.
Relative location - the location of a place or region in relation to other places or regions (northwest or downstream).
Religion - a system of beliefs for satisfying a peoples’ spiritual wants/needs.
Renaissance - a revival or rebirth, usually referring to the revival of classical learning in Italy after the Middle Ages.
Renewable resource - a resource that can be regenerated.
Representative democracy - a system of government where citizens elect public officials to govern on their behalf.
Republic - a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the
governed.
Reserved powers - powers that are not specifically granted or denied to the federal government are reserved to the states.
Resource - an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
Responsibility - that for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the responsibilities of power.
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Revenue - receipts from sales of goods and services.
Rights - those individual liberties granted to all persons through the U. S. Constitution.
Romanticism - an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in
nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion
against established social rules and conventions.
Rule of law - principle that every member of a society, even a ruler, must follow the law.
S
Satellite image - images taken by manmade orbiting bodies.
Saver - someone who sets aside items or money for future use.
Savings - income that is not spent, setting aside income or money for future use.
Scale - relative size as shown on a map (1 inch = 100 miles).
Scarcity - not being able to have everything wanted making choices necessary; when supply is less than demand.
Secondary source - an account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand (textbook information, historically based movies, biographies).
Services - something that one person does for someone else.
Shi’ism - the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
Social Darwinism - a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority
Socialism - a political and economic system in which government controls resources and industries.
Society - a group of people bound together by the same culture.
Sovereignty - ultimate, supreme power in a state; in the United States, sovereignty rests with the people.
Sovereignty of the People - ultimate authority are held by people of the United States
Spatial - pertaining to space on the earth’s surface.
Spatial distribution - the location(s) shown on a map of a set of human or physical features.
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Specialization - people who work in jobs where they produce a few special goods and services.
Spending - the use of money to buy goods and services.
Substitute goods Supply - the quantity of resources, goods, or services that sellers offer at various prices at a particular time.
Surrealism - a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by
fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
T
Tariff - a tax imposed on imported goods.
Technology - science applied to achieve practical purposes.
Thematic map - a map representing a specific theme, topic, or spatial distribution (cattle production, climates).
Theocracy - a government ruled by religious leaders.
Totalitarianism- a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life
Trade - the exchange of goods or services for other goods and services or money.
Trade barriers - something that prohibits trade.
Trade-off - getting less of one thing in order to get a little more of another.
U
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights- an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
Urbanization - the growth of cities.
W
Wages - payment for labor or services to a worker, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the piece.
Wants - desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good, service, or leisure activity.
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West Africa - the western coast and immediate hinterland of sub-Saharan Africa; to include Niger, Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria; refers to the Mali,
Songhai, and Ghana empires.
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Kindergarten through Third Grade Geography Locations Found in the Standards
Kindergarten
Equator
North Pole
South Pole
His/her hometown
Kansas
First Grade
Kindergarten Locations Plus:
United States
Canada
Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Second Grade
K-1 Locations Plus:
Rocky Mountains
Missouri River
Gulf of Mexico
Kansas City
Wichita
Topeka
Washington, D.C.
Teacher Notes:
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Third Grade
K-2 Locations Plus:
Four oceans: Pacific,
Atlantic, Artic, Indian
Seven continents: North
America, South America,
Asia, Australia, Europe,
Africa, Antarctica
Los Angeles
New York City
Denver
Chicago
His/her county
His/ her neighboring cities
His/her county seat
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Fourth through Sixth Grade Geography Locations Found in the Standards
Fourth Grade
K-3 Locations Plus:
Appalachian Mountains
The Great Lakes
50 States
Kansas River
Arkansas River
Mississippi River
Atlanta
Grand Canyon
Gulf of California
Mt. McKinley
Puerto Rico
Prime Meridian
International Dateline
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
San Francisco
Dallas
Phoenix
Seattle
Everglades
Yellowstone National Park
Niagara Falls
Fifth Grade
K-4 Locations Plus:
▲ Atlantic Ocean
▲ Boston
▲ England
▲ France
▲ Italy
▲ North America
▲ Pacific Ocean
▲ Philadelphia
▲ Spain
Caribbean Sea
Yucatan Peninsula
Germany
Aleutian Islands
Bering Strait
Chesapeake Bay
Hudson Bay
Mexico City
Montreal
Netherlands
Norway
Ohio River
Portugal
Quebec City
St. Lawrence River
Sixth Grade
K-5 Locations Plus:
▲ China
▲ Egypt
▲ Greece
Central America
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Persian Gulf
▲ Rome
▲ India
Sahara Desert
Saudi Arabia
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Ganges River
Himalaya Mountains
Huan He (Yellow River)
Indus River
Jerusalem
Mecca
▲ Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)
Persia (modern Iran)
▲ Middle/South America
Western Europe
West Africa
Teacher Notes:
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Red Sea
Tigris River
Yangtze River
Chile
Brazil
Peru
Amazon River
Andes Mountains
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Seventh and Eighth Grade Geography Locations Found in the Standards
Seventh Grade
K-6 Locations Plus:
Amsterdam
Argentina
Cairo
Cuba
International Dateline
Japan
Kenya
London
Paris
Rotterdam
Scandinavian Peninsula
South Africa
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Beijing
Berlin
Black Sea
Bosporus Strait
English Channel
Geneva
Hong Kong
Iran
Jordan
Moscow
Panama Canal
Singapore
Suez Canal
Alps Mountains
Arabian Sea
Atlas Mountains
Baghdad
Baltic Sea
Bering Sea
Buenos Aires
Caspian Sea
Teacher Notes:
Danube River
Dominican Republic
Gobi Desert
Haiti
Iberian Peninsula
Johannesburg
Lagos
Lake Victoria
Lisbon
Madrid
Morocco
Mt. Everest
New Delhi
Niger River
North Sea
Ob River
Philippines
Po River
Pyrenees Mountains
Rhine River
Rio de Janeiro
Russia
Sea of Japan
Seine River
Strait of Gibraltar
Sydney
Thames River
The Hague
Ural Mountains
Vancouver
Volga River
Yellow Sea
Zaire River (formerly Congo
River)
Kansas History (7 or 8)*
Abilene
Arkansas River
Dodge City
Fort Hays
Fort Larned
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Scott
Garden City
Goodland
Hutchinson
Kansas City
Kaw River (Kansas River)
Lawrence
Manhattan
Missouri River
Salina
Topeka
Wichita
Ogallala Aquifer
*Please add locations important to
your community or region.
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Eighth Grade
Locations K-7 Plus:
Atlanta
New Orleans
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
Columbia River
St. Louis
Rio Grande
Black Hills
Continental Divide
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High School Geography Locations Found in the Standards
High School World History
Locations K-8 Plus:
Balkan Peninsula
▲ Beijing
Berlin
Black Sea
Bosporus Strait
▲ English Channel
Euphrates River
Geneva
Hong Kong
▲ India
Iraq
Israel
Libya
▲ Moscow
North Korea
Pakistan
▲ Sahara Desert
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
▲ South Africa
South Korea
Suez Canal
Tigris River
Tokyo
▲ Venezuela
Yangtze River
Teacher Notes:
High School U.S. History
Locations K-World History Plus:
Harlem
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Cambodia
Vietnam
Normandy
Omaha Beach
Warsaw
Poland
Austria
Hungary
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Los Alamos, NM
Oak Ridge, TN
Birmingham, AL
Selma, AL
Montgomery, AL
Little Rock, AR
Detroit, MI
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State Historic Sites to Tour with Students
The Five National Historic Park Sites Located in Kansas
Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site: 1515 SE Monroe Street, Topeka, KS 66612-1143; 785-354-4273
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/
Fort Scott National Historic Site: P.O. Box 918, Fort Scott, KS 66701-0918; Visitor Information 620-223-0310
http://www.nps.gov/fosc/
Fort Larned National Historic Site: RR 3, Box 69, Larned, KS 67550-9321; Visitor Information 620-285-6911; Headquarters 620-285-6911
http://www.nps.gov/fols/
Nicodemus National Historic Site: 304 Washington Ave., Bogue, KS 67625-3015
Visitor Information 785-839-4233; Superintendent 785-839-4321; Administration 620-285-2896 x228
http://www.nps.gov/nico/
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve National Historic Site: P.O. Box 585, 226 Broadway,
Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845 -or- Rt. 1 Box 14, Hwy 177, Strong City, 66869
Ranch Information Station 620-273-8494; Headquarters - Admin 620-273-6034; Park Superintendent 620-273-6034
http://www.nps.gov/tapr/
Presidential Library Located in Kansas
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library & Museum: 200 Southeast Fourth Street, Abilene, Kansas, 67410; 785-263-6700
http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/
State History Museum
Kansas Museum of History: 6425 SW Sixth Avenue, Topeka, KS 66615-1099, 785-272-8681
http://www.kshs.org
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State and National Resources
Kansas Organizations and Resources
Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) 120 SE 10th Ave., Topeka, KS 66612-1182 (785)296-3201.
www.ksde.org
Kansas Education Resource Center (KERC) Lesson plans aligned by standard, benchmark and indicator.
http://www.kerc-ks.org/
Kansas Courts/Kansas Bar Association (KBA) Kansas Civics-Government related news, Law Wise publication, lesson plans, teacher
opportunities
www.kscourts.org
Fax: (785) 271-7341
Kids Voting Kansas Topeka, Kansas 66601 (785) 271-2147
www.kidsvotingkansas.org
Kansas Council for Economic Education (KCEE)- teacher workshops, lesson plans, resources, teacher awards and opportunities
http://www.kcee.wichita.edu/k12.htm
Centers for Economic Education.
 Emporia State University, Campus Box 4058, Emporia, Kansas 66801 (316) 341-5678;
 Fort Hays State University, Department of Teacher Education, Hays, Kansas 67601-4099 (785) 628-4204;
 University of Kansas, 9 Bailey Hall, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 (785) 864-9682, Kansas State University, 2323 Anderson
Avenue #229, Manhattan, Kansas 66502-2912 (785) 532-5597;
 Pittsburg State University, 207 Hughes Hall, Pittsburg, Kansas 66762 (316) 235-4499;
 Wichita State University, Campus Box 78, Wichita, Kansas 67260-0078 (316) 978-3452
Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS)- lesson plans, traveling trunks, resources, student and teacher events
www.kshs.org
Territorial Kansas Online- online activities, resources, lesson plans
www.territorialkansasonline.org
Lewis and Clark in Kansas – resources, lesson plans, list of contacts for Lewis and Clark in Kansas manual provided to each school
district in Kansas
www.lewisandclarkinkansas.org
National Archives in Kansas City – collection of primary source documents
www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/index.html
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Kansas Council for the Social Studies (KCSS) - teacher resources, news and conferences, teacher awards and grant opportunities
http://www.kcss.info/pages/1/index.htm
Kansas Council for International Education in Schools (KCIES)- lesson plans, teacher courses, resources for teaching globally
www.kansasintheworld.org
Kansas Council for History Education- lesson plans, teacher resources, events
www.ksche.org
Kansas History Teachers Association (KHTA)
www.emporia.edu/socsci/khta/khta.htm
Kansas Heritage Center. 1000 North Second Avenue, P.O. Box 1207, Dodge City, Kansas 67801 (316) 227-1616
[email protected]
Kansas Geographic Alliance- maps, teacher grants, resources, lesson plans, workshops, conferences
www.fhsu.edu/kga/
Kansas Textbooks
Peopling the Plains. James Shortridge, University Press of Kansas, 1995, ISBN 0700606971
Indians of Kansas. William Unrau, Kansas State Historical Society, 1991, ISBN 0877260419
Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography. Homer Socolofsky and Virgil Dean, Greenwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0313282382
The Kansas Journey Jennie Chinn, Gibbs Smith Publishing, 2005, ISBN 158685-004-0
Kansas Revisited: Historical Images and Perspectives. Paul Stuewe, editor, Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas,
1998, ISBN 0936352167
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National Organizations and Resources
Civics-Government
National Standards
National Standards for Civics and Government, Center for Civic Education, 5146 Douglas Fir Road,Calabasas, California 91302-1467.
(800) 350-4223. ISBN# 0-89818-155-0
National Resources and Organizations
Center for Civic Education/ We the People/ Project Citizen. 5146 Douglas Fir Road, Calabasas, California 91203-1467.
(818) 591-9321. http://www.civiced.org/index.php
Constitutional Rights Foundation. http://www.crf-usa.org
National Law-Related Education Resource Center. American Bar Association, 705 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
(312) 988-5000
National Student Parent Mock Election.
http://www.nationalmockelection.com
Take a Stand. Daniel Weizmann, Price Stern Sloan, Los Angeles, 1996. ISBN 08431799X
Teaching Tolerance. Southern Poverty Law Center, 400 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104.
[email protected]
Words That Made America Great. Jerome B. Agel, Random House, New York, 1997.ISBN 0375706518
Economics
National Standards
Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics. National Council on Economic Education, 1140 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, New York 10036. ISBN# 1-56183-433-5
National Organizations and Resources
National Council on Economic Education (NECC) -lesson plans, resources; links to EconedLink and ECONnectios, and ItAllAddsUp!
as well as Councils and Centers for Economic Education nationwide
www.ncee.net/resources/
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Foundation for Teaching Economics. 260 Russell Boulevard, Suite B, Davis, California 95616-3839 (530) 757-4630
http://www.fte.org/
The Mint
www.themint.org
National Council on Economic Education (NECC)
www.ncee.net/resources/
Foundation for Teaching Economics
http://www.fte.org/weblesson.html
Indiana Council for Economic Education- KidsEcon Posters, resources, songs
www.kidseconposters.com
Wise Pockets- lesson plans, activities, resources and resources for young students
www.wisepockets.com
Geography
National Standards
Geography for Life, National Geography Standards. National Geographic Society, P.O. Box 1640, Washington, D. C. 20013-1640
(800) 368-2728 ISBN 0-7922-2775-1
National Organizations and Resources
National Council for Geographic Education. 1600 M Street, N.W., Suite 2500, Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 775-7832
http://www.ncge.org/
National Geography Education Services. 1145 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-4688 (800) 368-2728
www.nationalgeographic.com
ARGUS (Activities and Readings in Geography of the United States). Association of American Geographers,
1710 16th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20009
CTIR (Center for Teaching International Relations). University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80202, (303) 781-2164
Sample Titles: Exploring the Developing World, Geographic Perspectives, Global Issues in the Elementary Classroom, Teaching About
Africa.
Population Reference Bureau. 1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 520, Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 483-1100
Sample Title: Connections: Linking Population and the Environment
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United States Census Bureau. Data User Services Division, United States Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. 20233
The World Bank. 1818 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20433 Sample Titles: The Developmental Data Book: A Guide to Social and
Economic Statistics, The Environmental Data Book: A Guide to Statistics on the Environment and Development
World Eagle, Inc. 64 Washburn Avenue, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 Sample Titles: Africa Today, The Middle East Today, The
United States Today
Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow Units
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.html
How Far Is It? http://www.indo.com/distance
National Geographic Society http://nationalgeographic.com/resources
History
National Standards
National Standards for History. National Center for History in the Schools,
University of California–Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 761,
Los Angeles, California 90024-4108 ISBN 0-9633218-4-6
National Standards for History for Grades K-4. National Center for History in
the Schools, University of California–Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Boulevard,
Suite 761, Los Angeles, California 90024-4108 ISBN 0-9633218-3-8
National Standards for World History. National Center for History in the
Schools, University of California–Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Boulevard,
Suite 761, Los Angeles, California 90024-4108 ISBN 0-9633218-2X
National Organizations and Resources
American Association for State and local History. 1717 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 (615) 320-3203
http://www.aaslh.org
National Center for History in the Schools, University of California–Los Angeles, 231 Noore Hall, Los Angeles, California 90024
(310) 825-4702
National Council for History Education, 26915 Westwood Road, Suite B2,Westlake, Ohio 44145
http://www.history.org/nche
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Kansas
Indians of Kansas. William Unrau, Kansas State Historical Society, 1991,ISBN 0877260419
Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography. Homer Socolofsky and Virgil Dean, Greenwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0313282382
The Kansas Journey Jennie Chinn, Gibbs Smith Publishing, 2005, ISBN 158685-004-0
Kansas Revisited: Historical Images and Perspectives. Paul Stuewe, editor, Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas,
1998, ISBN 0936352167
Peopling the Plains. James Shortridge, University Press of Kansas,1995, ISBN 0700606971
United States
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection. James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1986, ISBN
0394354753
The American History Reader…Words That Moved A Nation. Diane Ravitch, editor, Harper, New York, 1991, ISBN 0060164808
Bring History Alive! A Sourcebook for Teaching American History. David Vigiliante and Ross E. Dunn, National Center for History in
the Schools, Los Angeles, California, 1996, ISBN 0-9633218-6-2
World
Africa: The History of the Continent. John Tliffe, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521484227
Bring History Alive! A Sourcebook for Teaching World History. David Vigiliante and Ross E. Dunn, National Center for History in the
Schools, Los Angeles, California, 1996, ISBN 0-9633218-6-2
China: A New History. John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, Harvard University Press, 1998, ISBN 0674116739
Europe: A History. Norman Davis, Harper Collins, 1998, ISBN 0060974680
The Greatest Benefit of Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. Roy Porter, Norton and Company, 1998, ISBN 0393046346
History of the World. J. M. Roberts, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0195210433
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Web Resources for Social Studies
The American Civil War Page
http://www.civilwarhome.com/
History Channel Classroom
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/classroom.html
History Today
http://www.historytoday.com
National History Day
http://www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay/
Truman Presidential Library/ White House Decision Center
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
The Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu
The United States Holocaust Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
Social Studies
National Standards
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Expectations for Excellence.
National Council for the Social Studies, 3501 Newark Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20016 ISBN 0-87986-065-0
National Organizations and Resources
National Council for the Social Studies, 3501 Newark Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20016 (202) 966-7840
http://www.ncss.org
Annual Editions. Dushkin Publishing, Guilford Connecticut 06437. Sample Titles: Africa, American Government, American History,
China, Global Issues, Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Pre-Modern World History, Post-Civil War, Third World, World Politics.
“Assessing Discussion of Public Issues,” in Handbook on Teaching Social Issues. NCSS Bulletin 93, R. W. Evans and D. W. Szxe,
editors, National Council for the Social studies, 1997
News Matters, Knowledge Unlimited, P. O. Box 52, Madison, Wisconsin 53701 (800) 356-2303
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Renewing the Social Studies Curriculum. Walter Parker, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Virginia,
1991
Strategic Teaching Reading Project, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, Office of Educational Research and Improvement,
Oak Brook, Illinois, 1995
The Teaching of Thinking and Problem Solving, R. S. Nickerson and R. J. Sternberg, editors. Academic Press, San Diego, California,
1994
TV News Game. Cass Street Publishers, 2424 E. Webster #102, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 (414) 906-9500
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
California State University at Northridge- Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources
http://www.csun.edu
Teaching Strategies
http://www.interactiveclassroom.com/
Southern Poverty Law Center
http://splc.org
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